Journalist Ksenia Lutskina served only half of her eight-year prison sentence in Belarus after being convicted of conspiracy to ...

Polish security agency to investigate disappearance of Belarus’s opposition activist amid fears of foreign involvement.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko will be sworn in for a seventh term following the disputed January election, which was widely criticised by opposition groups and rejected by the European ...

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. The date of Independence Day looks back to the liberation of Minsk from the Nazis back in 1944. That, of course, brought Belarus back under ...

Dozens of journalists in Belarus have been imprisoned in recent years under a crackdown by authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko TALLINN, Estonia -- Journalist Ksenia Lutskina served only ...

James Marson leads Ukraine coverage for The Wall Street Journal.

of Journalists, told AP. Lukashenko’s brutal crackdown after the disputed election led to more 65,000 arrests from 2020 to 2025. Thousands told of being beaten by police, opposition figures were ...

The 2020 crackdown Lukashenko's brutal crackdown after the disputed election led to over 65,000 arrests between 2020-25. Thousands told of being beaten by police, opposition figures were jailed or ...