Painful wait for wife of jailed opponent in Belarus
Marina Adamovich has had no news of her husband -- the imprisoned Belarusian opposition figure Mikola Statkevich.Adamovich, ...
Slovakia’s Fico Faces Renewed Protests Against Pro-Russian Drift
Tens of thousands of Slovaks protested against Prime Minister Robert Fico’s government in more than 40 cities Friday, seeking ...
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Emigration and war hit once-booming Belarus tech sector
Tech has been one of the few relatively liberalised sectors in ex-Soviet Belarus's state-dominated economy. It experienced a ...
Belarus election: how ‘Europe’s last dictator’ held onto power as his opponents were jailed or exiled
The acclamation of Alexander Lukashenko as Belarus president for a seventh straight term was confirmed on January 26. The ...
How a train station tragedy is threatening to bring down a hardline European president
On the first day of November, Aleksandar Matkovic was running late for a train. He was traveling from Novi Sad, in the north ...
After Lukashenko's latest sham election win, exiled Belarusians reflect on lessons learned from 2020's lost revolution
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.
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Belarusians in Poland Protest ‘Sham’ Election
Many Belarusians around the world came together on Sunday to protest against the presidential election in Belarus held that day, in which Aleksandr Lukashenko, who has held the post since 1994 ...
Belarus opposition and Western leaders reject election result that extends strongman’s rule
Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko has extended his more than three decades in power in Sunday’s orchestrated election that the opposition and the European Union rejected as a sham.
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Lukashenko wins seventh term in Belarus election
His reliance on support from Russian President Vladimir Putin helped him survive the 2020 protests. Observers believe Mr Lukashenko feared a repeat of those mass demonstrations amid economic ...
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Belarus frees American woman from detention as strongman leader looks to extend 30-year rule
A former Belarusian diplomat told The Associated Press that her detention was linked to the unprecedented mass protests following ... of prisoner releases by Lukashenko, often dubbed “Europe ...