Belarus has freed Sergey Tikhanovsky, a key dissident figure and the husband of exiled opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, following a rare visit by a senior US official, Tikhanovskaya’s team ...

UEFA has changed the hosting plan for its 2026 European Championship for indoor soccer because Russia’s military ally Belarus ...

MINSK, Belarus – It has been dubbed by critics as the "last dictatorship" in Europe and for decades has been one of the world's most closed countries.

MOSCOW — The European Union will hit Belarus with new sanctions as early as next week in retaliation for the ongoing migrant crisis on the Polish border, according to a top E.U. official ...

Belarus concludes its presidential election on Sunday, but the winner is already beyond doubt. The outcome has been consistent for the past 30 years. Since 1994, one man's name — Alexander ...

The forcible diversion of a flight from Greece to Lithuania to Belarus has not only sparked a diplomatic incident; it’s also made big changes for flying in Europe, and, possibly, beyond.

In recent months, Belarus has been steadily morphing into what many describe as the “North Korea of Europe.” Thousands have been detained in connection with protest activities and nearly 500 ...

I'm RFE/RL Europe Editor Rikard Jozwiak, and this week I'm drilling down on two major issues: the question of whether the EU should further sanction Belarus, and what to expect when European ...

Lithuania says Belarus sends migrants in retaliation for EU sanctions; A migrant tells Reuters she flew to Minsk from Mogadishu via Istanbul; She says her group were to pay $7,000 to take them to ...

Last week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called on Europe to pay Belarus to help stop the flow of migrants. “But Lukashenko miscalculated and now there’s no way out,” Bolkunets said.

“Belarus’ sovereignty is evaporating very fast,” said Pavel Slunkin, a former Belarusian diplomat who is now a fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations.

Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus, told Russia's defence minister on Monday that he wanted guarantees that Moscow would defend his country if it was attacked, the state-owned BelTA ...