---
pretty_name: Laws of Belarus
license: other
license_name: by-pravo
language:
- ru
task_categories:
- text-retrieval
tags:
- legal
- law
- belarus
- official-texts
size_categories:
- n<1K
configs:
- config_name: laws
  data_files: data/laws.parquet
  default: true
- config_name: articles
  data_files: data/articles.parquet
---

# Laws of Belarus

Research snapshot of official legislation collected from **pravo.by National Legal Portal**.

**Not legal advice.** Official gazettes / government portals prevail over this corpus.

## Snapshot

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Snapshot date | 2026-09-04 |
| Coverage | catalog-backed incomplete |
| Source | pravo.by National Legal Portal |
| Collector | `scrapers/collect_by.py` |
| Laws / instruments | 40 |
| Articles | 7335 |
| Language | ru |
| Jurisdiction | Belarus |
| License | `by-pravo` |

## Contents

- `data/laws.parquet` — one row per instrument (id, title, full text, dates, status, identifiers, article count, source URL).
- `data/articles.parquet` — one row per article/section (`law_id`, article number, title, text, source URL).
- `scrapers/collect_by.py` — research collector used to build this snapshot.
- `scrapers/common.py` — shared collector helpers.
- `scrapers/world_lib.py` — shared fetch (live official URL, Wayback fallback).
- `scrapers/archive_fallbacks.py` — Wayback / Common Crawl CDX helpers.

## License / reuse

Official government / gazette texts; reuse per public-sector terms of the
source portal. This packaging, metadata, and collector script are provided
for research.

This dataset is **not** an official consolidation and is **not legal advice**.
The official source prevails.

## Notes

Partial official scrape batch2.