Alexander Lukashenko, Europe’s longest-serving leader, has extended his 31-year rule in Belarus after being declared the winner of a presidential election that his exiled opponents and Western ...

Belarus has “unilaterally” freed an American woman from detention, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Sunday, as the Kremlin-allied country held an orchestrated election poised to ...

A close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, he allowed Moscow to use Belarus as a launchpad for its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 - and paid the price in the form of ...

A federal jury in the District of Columbia was set to start deliberating Tuesday morning after Bend resident Jared Lane Wise’s nine-day trial wrapped up last week on civil disorder and five ...

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Vladimir Putin didn’t need to launch an invasion to put a stranglehold on Belarus. From using the country as a launchpad for his full-scale invasion of Ukraine to stashing Russian nuclear weapons on ...

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The elder Lukashenko has ruled the country for 30 years, and an early presidential election is scheduled to be held in Belarus on January 26. Nikolai Lukashenko first appeared in public in 2008 at ...

He explained that people arrived legally in Belarus from Afghanistan, Syria or Iraq and were then taken to the border with Poland for $8,000 to $12,000 (ca. €7,775 to 11,650).

Maria Zaitseva, a Belarusian woman who was seriously injured during anti-government protests in Minsk in 2020 and who later volunteered to fight in the war in Ukraine, has been killed in action.

Russia is nearing its goal of completely controlling its neighbor and closest ally Belarus, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) has said. Analysis by the Washington, D.C.-based independent ...