Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Ksenia Lutskina, a Belarusian journalist who was ...

The Republic of Belarus is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the north and east, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the ...

Before bagpipe rehearsal came the earplugs. Mike Breidenbach, director of piping at Macalester College, proffered a pair with a grin before pipe band practice Wednesday night. Gather enough ...

United Nations investigators are accusing the Belarusian government of Alexander Lukashenko of instilling “a pervasive climate of fear by quashing all avenues of dissent” by systematically ...

The band uses many forgotten instruments including the Belarusian bagpipe, lyre, gusli (a Baltic psaltery or harp), svirel (reed pipe), birch bark trumpet and other instruments. The purpose of the ...

University of Alberta provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of Alberta provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Twenty political analysts are on ...

Lawyers representing clients in politically motivated cases or speaking out on rights abuses face systematic and widespread repression in Belarus. Belarusian authorities took control over the ...

Vladimir and Nadezhda playing their bagpipes at the lake after being released from Belarusian prisonImage: Irdorath But things don't stay good for long. They don't want to speak much about the ...

Belarus has hit a new low in its targeting of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. As of today, the definition of pornography under Belarusian law will include depictions of same ...

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Sunday’s tightly controlled parliamentary and local elections in Belarus are set to cement the hard-line rule of the country’s authoritarian leader, despite a ...