After breaking away from a crumbling Soviet Union in the early 1990s, Belarus became increasingly aligned with Russia, unlike ...

Rights groups, activists and independent media in Russia and Belarus endured increased government scrutiny, repressive laws and even were shut down and forced to operate from exile abroad.

Rights groups, activists and independent media in Russia and Belarus endured increased ... played a crucial role in the anti-Lukashenko protests in Belarus. The mother of Belarusian blogger ...

President Alexander Lukashenko, often dubbed "Europe's last dictator," offered to free Anastassia Nuhfer whose arrest was ...

Human rights groups and Belarusians say they see no signs that Alexander Lukashenko is preparing to loosen his iron grip on the state.

“The trauma of the 2020 protests was so deep that Lukashenko this time ... the West to try to win more subsidies from the ...

Maria Zaitseva, who was widely viewed as a heroine of the democracy movement in Belarus, was killed in action on Jan. 17 near ...

The acclamation of Alexander Lukashenko as Belarus president for a seventh straight term was confirmed on January 26. The ...

The crisis threatens to overturn a decades-long effort by the United States and EU to preserve Georgian democracy, which has ...

Aleksandr Lukashenko has awarded himself a seventh term as president of Belarus, with the West calling the so-called vote a ...

The Baltic states on Saturday began cutting ties with Russia's power grid in order to integrate with Europe's system, a years ...