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 ...

Court in Belarus sentences two journalists, Katsiaryna Andreyeva and Darya Chultsova, to two years in prison for live streaming protest amid ongoing crackdown. Workers and students across Belarus ...

Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko has been in power for more than 30 years and just won another election widely ...

He is running for an unprecedented seventh term this month, after violently crushing mass protests against vote-rigging that erupted ... elected to the country's Supreme Soviet in 1990. He won Belarus ...

Andrey Kuznechyk, a journalist with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, was one of those released from a Belarusian prison after ...

Today, all the key opposition figures from that period are in prison or have fled abroad, like Tikhanovskaya. Former ...

Human rights groups and Belarusians say they see no signs that Alexander Lukashenko is preparing to loosen his iron grip on ...

That triggered cries of fraud, months of protests ... Belarus in the second half of 2025, remaining under Moscow's control while Minsk will select the targets. 24/7 coverage of breaking news and ...

Tech has been one of the few relatively liberalised sectors in ex-Soviet Belarus's state-dominated economy. It experienced a ...