TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Authorities in Belarus opened a criminal case against a 78-year-old activist who became the face of the country’s pro-democracy protests in 2020, a rights organization said ...

Belarus' Viasna Human Rights Centre, an NGO, declared Nakanishi a political prisoner. The group says that Belarus now has more than 1,200 political prisoners in custody, among them 36 foreign ...

Belarus’s Lukashenko calls Putin his “elder brother,” but over his 30-year rule he’s balanced close ties to Moscow with keeping his country from being swallowed.

Belarus and Russia ratified the Union State Security Pact, expanding the nuclear umbrella and military integration. Belarusian dictator Aleksandr Lukashenko invites U.S President Donald Trump, ...

Belarus, Russia’s closest ally, has released an American prisoner and two others from jail, an exiled opposition group said on Wednesday, in the latest sign that the autocratic Belarusian ...

The acclamation of Alexander Lukashenko as Belarus president for a seventh straight term was confirmed on January 26. The electoral authorities announced that the man known as “Europe’s last ...

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 the Kremlin-allied country held an orchestrated election poised to give ...

Minsk expects 13,000 Russian troops to take part in joint military drills in 2025. Over 13,000 Russian troops will participate in the Zapad-2025 joint military exercise, the Belarusian Defense ...

Yet, until now, Belarus has steered clear of actually engaging in military conflict with Ukraine — and the current troop build-up along their border raises the spectre of that changing.

1) Passports: Belarusians whose passports are expiring and who cannot return to Belarus can now only rely on alternative documents such as a foreigner’s travel document. Since the new decree by ...

Belarus on Friday adopted a new military doctrine that – if approved – would be the first step toward deploying nuclear weapons across the country. CNN values your feedback 1.