After years of the U.S. trying to isolate Russia’s closest ally, a meeting with Belarus’s president points to better ...

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

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

Rights groups, activists and independent media in Russia and Belarus endured increased government scrutiny, repressive laws and even were shut down and forced to operate from exile abroad.

Roman Protasevich, founder of the social media news channel NEXTA, played a crucial role in the anti-Lukashenko protests in Belarus. The mother of Belarusian blogger Roman Protasevich, who was ...

Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, Belarus’s autocratic president and Russia’s closest ally, has taken steps to soften his country’s ...

Since Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman, was killed by the Morality Police in fall of 2022, Iran has been enveloped in protests. The movement, called “Woman, Life, Freedom” is in many ways ...

With many of his political opponents either jailed or exiled abroad, Alexander Lukashenko, dubbed “Europe’s last dictator,” is all but certain to add a seventh term.

Belarus has "unilaterally" freed an American ... The last election in 2020 triggered months of mass protests unprecedented in Belarusian history. The U.S. State Department said later on Sunday ...

Despite the objections of her family, in 2020, Zaytsava traveled from her hometown of Homel, in southeastern Belarus, to join the protests in Minsk. On the evening of August 9, 2020, she was among ...

It is not as repressive as Aleksander Lukashenko’s Belarus, but neither as permissive ... Analysts say Vucic is skilled in thwarting protests by making targeted concessions, jettisoning allies ...

The last time Belarus staged a presidential election in 2020, authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko was declared the ...