Three detainees have been released from detention in Belarus, including one American, the White House said on Wednesday, as U ...

Belarusian authorities have released an imprisoned U.S. citizen, a Belarusian journalist for a U.S.-funded media outlet and ...

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Human rights groups and Belarusians say they see no signs that Alexander Lukashenko is preparing to loosen his iron grip on ...

Belarus' opposition activists and Western officials on Monday denounced an orchestrated election that extends the more than three-decade rule of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko. The ...

Belarus has “unilaterally” freed an American woman from detention, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Sunday, as ...

This meant that the most prominent opposition leader not now in prison in Belarus, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, was ineligible. Tsikhanouskaya fled after the election to avoid the fate of her husband ...

Most western leaders have dismissed the result as a “sham”. Germany’s foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, posted on X that “the people of Belarus had no choice”, while the Polish foreign minister, ...

An American is one of three hostages released from Belarus, the White House has announced. The announcement comes just ...

According to the opposition's report, $1.7 million in U.S. aid is frozen -– more than half of all foreign aid to independent ...

Andrey Kuznechyk, a journalist with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, was one of those released from a Belarusian prison after ...

And according to a nighttime statement by the Central Election Commission, the strongman leader won by a landslide ... security,” arguing he has saved Belarus from being drawn into war.