Over the four years of this five-year period, 17.2 million square meters of housing was commissioned, 2% above the target,” ...

The EAEU was established as an explicitly non-political organization in a region plagued by geopolitical tensions. However, ...

Earlier, Belarus and Russia invited Eurasian countries to join the effort to develop the Eurasian Charter of Diversity and ...

Belarus’ strongman President Aleksandr Lukashenko secured his seventh term with an expected 87.6% of the vote, extending his ...

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 ...

The last time Belarus held a presidential election in 2020, Lukashenko claimed a landslide victory with more than 80% of the vote. The opposition cried foul, claiming that Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya ...

The first building to include a fully pendentive dome, Hagia Sophia is a paragon of Byzantine architecture. It was built as a Christian church by emperor Justinian I in 537, but it now serves as a ...

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 ...

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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Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. FILE – Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski, head of the Viasna human rights group, sits in a ...