Belarus opened its first nuclear power plant in Astravets in 2020 amid protests and concern in neighbouring Lithuania, where there was opposition to the plant's location.View on euronews ...

The authoritarian ruler of Belarus, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, has threatened to shut down the Internet in the event of mass protests during or after the upcoming presidential election, after the previous ...

Self-exiled Belarusian opposition leader Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya has called on the Belarusian public and international community to "be prepared for every scenario" as Minsk and state media have ...

Exiled Belarus opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya told Euronews that President Aliaksandr Lukashenka "cannot be trusted at all", following a report of a planned meeting in Minsk between him ...

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Friday chided President Donald Trump for not speaking out about repression of democratic protests in Belarus, a country he said is being run by a "dictator ...

MINSK, BELARUS - NOVEMBER 23: (RUSSIA OUT) Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) embraces Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko (L) during the SCTO Summit on November 23, 2023, in Minsk, Belarus.

Nick Reynolds is a senior politics reporter at Newsweek. A native of Central New York, he previously worked as a politics reporter at the Charleston Post & Courier in South Carolina and for the Casper ...

On 24 February 2022, hours after Russia invaded Ukraine, the Belarusian opposition leader, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, issued an emergency statement: “Dear Ukrainians, on behalf of our country, I ...

The State Department calls the movement of unaccompanied Ukrainian children into Belarus and the entry into our country with ...

Just three years ago, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya lived a measured life in one of the sleepier parts of Minsk. But the 2020 Belarusian uprising against the dictatorship brought her to the political fore ...

Lukashenka stepped in, offering a mixture of authoritarianism and traditionalist leadership. "His views are very close to communist, but the Communists are his opposition," says Alexander Sasnow, an ...

The Biden administration on Wednesday took action against the regime of Alexander Lukashenko to mark the third anniversary of the fraudulent election in Belarus and the strongman leader’s brutal ...