Rights groups, activists and independent media in Russia and Belarus endured increased government scrutiny, repressive laws and even were shut down and forced to operate from exile abroad.

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko has extended his more than three decades in power in an orchestrated ...

The Belarusian power grid continues operating in parallel with Russia’s power grid within the framework of the Union State of ...

Trump could grant Lukashenka sanctions relief without demanding any meaningful concessions in return. The EU must continue to ...

Belarusians are voting in a closely-managed presidential election that is all but certain to extend the one-man rule of ...

Top Belarus opposition leader Maria Kolesnikova has been sentenced to 11 years in jail by a court in Minsk. Roman Protasevich, founder of the social media news channel NEXTA, played a crucial role ...

The E.U. has called Sunday’s election a sham. Lukashenko, running virtually unopposed, said he was “too busy” to even campaign.

New residents of the HTP specialize in such advanced areas as medical technologies, artificial intelligence, tourism and ...

Aleksandr Lukashenko has awarded himself a seventh term as president of Belarus, with the West calling the so-called vote a ...

The E.U. has called the election a sham, and President Alexander Lukashenko has said he’s “too busy” to even campaign.

Belarusian Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski, head of the Viasna human rights group, sits in a defendants’ cage in a court in Minsk, Belarus, on Jan. 5, 2023. In this photo released by Belarus’ ...

President Alexander Lukashenko, often dubbed "Europe's last dictator," offered to free Anastassia Nuhfer whose arrest was ...