Marina Adamovich has had no news of her husband -- the imprisoned Belarusian opposition figure Mikola Statkevich.Adamovich, ...

Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko declared himself the winner in the country's so-called presidential elections, in which zero members of the country's opposition were allowed to take part.

He is running for an unprecedented seventh term this month, after violently crushing mass protests against vote-rigging that ... have organised and struck a blow against it," he said. In 2023, ...

The protests presented Lukashenko with a dilemma ... Belarusian territory to launch the invasion of Ukraine. During the 2023 revolt by the Russian mercenary Wagner Group, Lukashenko acted as ...

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

The protests were ultimately crushed by riot police with mass arrests and brute force. The European Union then refused to recognise ... of her detention in 2023. She was held for ten days with ...

They call the election a sham — much like the last one in 2020 that triggered months of protests ... in Minsk on Nov. 23, 2023. (Konstantin Zavrazhin/AFP/Getty Images) Lukashenko's iron ...

In 2023, a passenger service carrying 350 people ... "I don't have oxygen" is the main slogan of the protests - referring to the finding that many were killed not by the collision itself, but ...

Alexander Lukashenko will soon turn 71. The Belarusian dictator is expected to win another manipulated presidential election in the country on Sunday. However, there are increasing reports about his ...

after the group’s boss voiced his support for anti-Lukashenko protests. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 accelerated the exodus after Belarus was hit by Western sanctions for ...

Lukashenko hosted the Wagner group leader and his fighters in Belarus before Prigozhin was killed in a plane crash in 2023. Despite western ... see few chances of mass protests following this ...