With so many political prisoners still behind bars, Lukashenko’s selective pardons fall far short of systemic change. Yet ...

Relations between Russia and Belarus are truly kindred and brotherly, St. Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov said during a ...

By bne Tallinn bureau On July 16, Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs lodged a formal protest with Belarus, delivering a ...

Last week, the Belarusian democratic opposition was torn apart by a particular question — should the West isolate and ...

Belarus and Russia have long enjoyed allied, brotherly relations in the truest sense of the word. The relations between the countries can be an example for other states, Vladimir Putin said.

Belarus, the onetime Soviet republic now beset by opposition protests, sits squarely between Russia and the West on a political seam that is dangerously fraying. In an extraordinary session on ...

WARSAW — Less than a week after President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said he would position nuclear weapons in neighboring Belarus, the Belarusian president on Friday joined his close ally in ...

For more than a year, Belarus-Russia relations have regularly made headlines. In late 2018, Russia suggested that Belarus would have to accept deeper bilateral integration if it wanted to benefit from ...

When Russia illegally annexed Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula in 2014, Belarus refused to recognize Russia’s takeover. This led to a slight thawing of Belarusian relations with the U.S., and the ...

The House on Thursday passed a bill to end normal trade relations with Russia and Belarus as the U.S. and its allies tighten the economic vice on the Kremlin. Lawmakers voted 424 to 8 in favor of ...

Siarhei Tsikhanouski, a leading opposition figure in Belarus, was freed on Saturday after more than five years in prison, in the most significant move so far by President Alexander Lukashenko to try ...

Siarhei Tsikhanouski and 13 other prisoners have been released from jail and are now free in Lithuania, the neighbouring country's government said.