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

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

Exiled opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya has accused Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of playing games with ...

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — An imprisoned opposition activist in ... in a penal colony after failing to get on the ballot against ...

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’ Lukashenko says Trump’s executive orders show ‘serious instability’ in US Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All ...

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 ...

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

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) — A statement on his website says Belarus’ authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko has pardoned 20 more people that rights activists describe as political prisoners.

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 ...