Belarusian Statehood and Constitution Overview

The Belarusian statehood dates back to July 27, 1990 when the BSSR Supreme Soviet adopted

the Declaration “On the State Sovereignty of the BSSR”. In August, 1991 the BSSR Supreme

Soviet declared the political and economic independence of Belarus. In December 1991

the agreement on creation of CIS was signed in the Belovezhskaya Pushcha. The final legal

act that declared Belarus a new democratic state in Eastern Europe was the 1994 Constitution.

The present-day Constitution of Belarus is the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus of 1994

with amendments and addenda adopted at the republican referenda of 1995, 1996,

2004, 2022. The Constitution defines the Republic of Belarus as a