Belaya Rus (Belarusian for "White Ruthenia"; РОО "Белая Русь") is a Belarusian public association founded on 17 November 2007 to support President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko in the 2008 parliamentary election, based on Vladimir Putin's United Russia party. Leader of the association is education minister Alexander Radkov (Александр Радьков). The membership of the association is more than 50 000 people.