MINSK - Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko criticized on Wednesday a Jewish regional governor in Belarus for not taking the country's Jewish population 'under control' as he had ordered. In a state-of-the-nation address, Lukashenko expressed annoyance that a popular online publication, which has a Jewish director, had criticized his decree imposing a tax on people who worked fewer than 183 days a year. Addressing the Minsk region governor Semyon Shapiro by name, Lukashenko said the head of the tut.by website, Yuri Zisser, was 'not behaving correctly'. 'I told you a year ago to take all the Jews of Belarus under control,' said the president, a leader who often ruffles feathers with his impromptu comments. A 2009 census said Jews made up 0.14 percent of Belarus's 9.5 million population.
