Belarus held an orchestrated election over the weekend that the opposition and the EU rejected as a farce, extending authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko's more than three decades in power.

Dec 17 (Reuters) - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said in an interview that relations with the United States could improve and that a starting point could be U.S. acknowledgment that a ...

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Belarus freed Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski, key opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova and dozens of other political prisoners on Saturday, capping two days of ...

COPENHAGEN, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Seventeen members of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) have appointed an independent team of experts to investigate alleged rights ...

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarus has freed Siarhei Tsikhanouski, a key dissident figure and the husband of exiled opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, and 13 others following a rare visit by a ...

MINSK, 29 May (BelTA) – As of 1 May 2020, Belarus' external state debt totaled $16.6 billion, down by $0.5 billion or 2.9% from the beginning of 2020 (taking into account differences in currency ...

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Imprisoned Belarusian opposition activist Maria Kolesnikova has resurfaced after more than 20 months without any communication with relatives or friends and met with her father ...

Sergey Tikhanovsky was arrested in 2020 as he tried to run for president. A court in Belarus has sentenced the husband of the leader of the country's pro-democracy movement, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, to ...