Impervious to international safety concerns, Belarus starts up its first nuclear power plant. “Cynical ignorance” is how Lithuania’s foreign minister...
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Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich was until recently the last leading opposition figure in Belarus to be both free and still in the country. Two weeks ago, however, the...
In her most overtly political statement yet, the Belarus opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya said on October 13 that she will call a nationwide strike unless...
Almost two months have now passed since a presidential election in Belarus which the incumbent, Alexander Lukashenko, claims to have won with over 80 per cent of the...
There were new protests in Belarus on September 23 following the abrupt and unannounced swearing-in of Alexander Lukashenko for a new term in office as the...
More than six weeks on from a rigged presidential election in Belarus, in which Alexander Lukashenko implausibly claims to have won a new term in office with more than...
Alexander Lukashenko, now widely viewed as the illegitimate president of Belarus following a rigged election on August 9 that he almost certainly lost, has long insisted...
Our weekly digest of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them...
Nearly a fifth (19.02 per cent) of all cyberattacks in Europe are being directed at Belarus, a report by the security firm Atlas VPN has revealed. Meanwhile, the current...
Dredging of the Pripyat River in Ukraine has begun at eight different sites, placing 28 million people living downstream – who depend on the Dnieper River, of...
The long-standing authoritarian leader of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, is experiencing the most turbulent period of his presidency. After stealing another election...
Current events in Belarus could be leading to an outcome similar to that of the 2018 Velvet Revolution in Armenia rather than the 2013-14 Revolution of Dignity in...
