In 2020, mass protests erupted after a disputed presidential election that extended ... crackdowns that left several people dead. RFE/RL's Belarus Service is one of the leading providers of ...

A democracy is not destroyed in an instant. It lurches towards destruction through the relaxing and ignoring of social and ...

The Belarusian leader mocks critics who derided him as 'Europe's last dictator,' saying his country has more democracy 'than those who cast themselves as its models.' ...

Angelika Melnikova, the speaker for the exiled Belarusian opposition’s Coordination Council, has been missing since late ...

You may think I’m crazy for comparing what the Lukashenko administration is doing in Belarus with what the Trump administration is doing in the United States. Still, these actions are comparable in ...

The recent disappearance of exiled Belarusian activist Angelika Melnikova has prompted much discussion about the reach of the Belarusian and Russian secret services.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) submits the following with respect to Belarus’s implementation of recommendations ... [3] Right to Peaceful Assembly and Crackdown on Peaceful Protests ...

Lukashenko marked three decades in power last year and his political opponents have denounced the tightly orchestrated presidential election on 26 January as a farce.View on euronews ...

The Belarus Central Election Commission declared he won with ... crackdown on dissent and free speech. Months of massive protests that were unprecedented in the history of the country of 9 million ...

The Belarus Central Election Commission declared he won with ... crackdown on dissent and free speech. Months of massive protests that were unprecedented in the history of the country of 9 million ...