5 Views From Belarus On The Country's Political Crisis Nearly a year after Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko's crackdown, "None of us doubt that we will prevail," an activist tells NPR.

The backlash against the 2020 protests continues through propaganda, censorship and repressions, with 5,000 prosecutions. Last country in Europe to still use the death penalty. SEXUAL MINORITIES ★★ ...

The foreign minister of Belarus says he can't envision a situation where his country would enter the war in Ukraine alongside Russian forces. Belarus has a strategic partnership with Russia.

Belarus’s spending on weaponry and other military expenditures has jumped significantly since 2022, when Russia launched its ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The fate of Belarus and Ukraine are “interconnected,” and both countries must fight together to safeguard their very existence because Russia doesn’t view them as ...

As life in Russia returned to normal after an armed rebellion by a mercenary group, tensions were rising in and around its neighbor Belarus, where the exiled leader of the force and some of its ...

Belarus's move to lure migrants toward E.U. borders marks a next-level evolution in the use of desperate asylum seekers as pawns in diplomatic blackmail.

While Belarus played a role in the sweeping prisoner exchange last week, none of the 1,400 people classified as political prisoners in the country by a human rights group were freed.

MOSCOW — Not so long ago, the image of Belarus was of a peaceful, if tightly controlled, former Soviet republic, squeezed between Poland and Russia. Now the country's pro-democracy leaders are ...