Belarus is holding a parliamentary election but with top opposition candidates kept off the ballot, only loyalists to the nation’s authoritarian president will win in what observers see as a dress rehearsal for next year’s similarly skewered presidential vote.
Read moreThe leader of Belarus on Friday accused some politicians in Russia of floating the prospect of incorporating his nation, and vowed that he wouldn’t let it happen.
Read moreAuthorities in Belarus have thwarted the opposition’s attempt to hold a rally and have detained several activists.
Read moreBelarus has named a new ambassador to Sweden, turning the page on a six-year rift that followed a Swedish advertising agency’s air drop of teddy bears bearing messages about human rights.
Read moreThough it refused to disturb monetary sanctions against a Belarusian oil company accused of helping kidnap two U.S. citizens, the Second Circuit found it unjustified Thursday to strike the company’s foreign sovereign immunity.
Read moreBelarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in a televised outburst has asked the country’s interior minister to press charges against Russia’s top food safety official.
Read moreA court in the former Soviet republic of Belarus has ruled against an Associated Press correspondent in a lawsuit by a dairy company that claimed an AP article damaged its reputation. AP said it stands by reporting and will seek to overturn the ruling on appeal.
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