After years of the U.S. trying to isolate Russia’s closest ally, a meeting with Belarus’s president points to better ...

Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, Belarus’s autocratic president and Russia’s closest ally, has taken steps to soften his country’s ...

Ukraine’s president issued a stark warning, saying that Russia may be preparing an act of aggression against NATO members as ...

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U.S. officials say Belarus has released three people, including an American and a journalist, who’d been detained for more ...

A journalist was among at least three people jailed in Belarus who the White House said Wednesday were released following a ...

Panasyuk, recently freed after four years in prison, described torture and forced psychiatric treatment in custody ...

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

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Russia is preparing to deploy a significant number of troops to Belarus, ...

The UN Group of Independent Experts on the Human Rights Situation in Belarus reported on Friday that the Belarusian government committed widespread human rights violations, including crimes against ...

Serious human rights violations remain rampant in Belarus, United Nations investigators said Friday, adding that some of the ...

Belarus will prepare a military-trained reserve from among its citizens, and these people will be ready to defend the country’s ...