Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko is mulling the idea of building a second nuclear power plant (NPP) to improve the ...

Belarusians vote on Sunday in a presidential election to extend Alexander Lukashenko's 30-year stranglehold on power in which ...

Arkatovich is among dozens of clergy — Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant — who have been jailed, silenced or forced into exile for protesting the 2020 election that gave Lukashenko a sixth term.

The yellow name tag that Ales Bialiatski wears on his prison garb sets him apart from other inmates in Penal Colony No. 9 in ...

Belarus is set for a presidential election on Sunday, with five candidates on the ballot but no real contest. Alexander ...

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — An imprisoned opposition activist in ... in a penal colony after failing to get on the ballot against authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko in a 2020 election. Babaryka ...

In 2024, Belarus, under dictator Alexander Lukashenko, continued to descend ... bordering states — Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia — announced the Baltic Defense Line in January.

Ales Bialiatski, Nobel Peace Prize winner and human rights activist, is imprisoned in Belarus, enduring harsh conditions as a political prisoner. President Lukashenko's regime labels Bialiatski and ...

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Catholic priest in Belarus ... election that is all but certain to hand authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko a seventh term in office. The Viasna Human Rights ...

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — An imprisoned opposition ... failing to get on the ballot against authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko in a 2020 election. Babaryka was last heard from in ...

A Catholic priest in Belarus on Monday was convicted on charges of high treason for criticizing the government and handed an 11-year sentence, in the first case of politically-driven charges against ...