Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, Belarus’s autocratic president and Russia’s closest ally, has taken steps to soften his country’s ...

Belarusian authorities have released an imprisoned U.S. citizen, a Belarusian journalist for a U.S.-funded media outlet and ...

Belarus has released three people, including an American and a journalist, who had been detained for more than three years, U ...

The choice of Minsk for the Normandy Four talks ten years ago was due to the historical role of Belarusian President ...

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They urged the Belarusian government to release political prisoners, estimating their number at more than 1,000, including an employee of the EU delegation in Belarus' capital, Minsk. Kallas and ...

The last time Belarus held a presidential election in 2020 ... Hundreds of thousands protested in the capital, Minsk, sparking the harshest crackdown in the country’s post-Soviet history.

According to reports from the Belarusian side, early on July 29, 32 Russian citizens were apprehended near Minsk, and one more was detained in southern Belarus. They are claimed to be involved in ...

Cue Belarus’ next rigged presidential election, scheduled for the end of January. Nearly five years ago, as massive anti-regime protests rocked Minsk amid accusations of election rigging by longtime ...