Belarus has been ruled since 1994 by President ... In June 2024, RFE/RL reported that Maushuk had been arrested after participating in demonstrations against Lukashenko following his victory ...

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty identified its journalist Andrey Kuznechyk, who was arrested in November 2021, as one of the people released. In a statement calling on Belarus to release other ...

Audio was released of air traffic controllers in Belarus telling the pilots of a Ryanair flight to divert to Minsk due to a "bomb" threat, which ended up being a ruse to arrest an activist on board.

Leavitt said the two other prisoners released were Belarus nationals ... He was serving a 14-year sentence after his arrest in August 2021 at a Russian airport for possession of drugs, which ...

PanARMENIAN.Net - Well-known blogger Alexander Lapshin reported on his Facebook page that, based on unconfirmed sources, Armenian blogger Bella was arrested in Belarus at Azerbaijan’s request.

Former journalist of Belteleradiocompany, political prisoner Kseniya Lutskina has left Belarus and is staying in Vilnius.

Belarus' opposition leader-in-exile Sviatlana ... An early opponent in the 2020 race was Sergei Tikhanovsky, but he was arrested shortly after announcing his candidacy and later sentenced to ...

Border service officers of Belarus detained a Ukrainian citizen at the Latvian border, who planned to conduct "extremist activities" in Russia, the service said on Thursday, adding that several ...

The events that followed the start of the Russian special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine demonstrated to the entire ...

Before a presidential election in 2020, relations with Russia became so tense that Belarus jailed a challenger it described as a stalking horse for Moscow, and later arrested 33 Russians it said ...

In Belarus, nearly 40 journalists are in prison for doing their jobs - while even state media isn't immune from an ...