Lieutenant Colonel of Justice Aleksandr Vorontsov once again went on a trip to the Prielbrusye National Park to combine ...

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

With many of his political opponents either jailed or exiled abroad, Alexander Lukashenko, dubbed “Europe’s last dictator,” ...

Image The exiled Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, center, and others marching with a 1,000-foot-long historical Belarusian flag, now banned in Belarus, in Warsaw last month ...

(AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov, File) A woman covers herself with an old Belarusian national flag while shouting at police during a protest near the residence of President Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk, ...

and pushed for abandoning the country’s red-and-white national flag in favor of one similar to what it used as a Soviet republic. Belarus' top security agency kept its fearsome Soviet-era name of the ...

The country’s economy is largely state-planned and Mr Lukashenko scrapped Belarus’ white-red-white flag in the 1990s – which has since become the symbol of the opposition. Mr Lukashenko ...

Belarus was part of the Soviet Union until its ... and pushed for abandoning the country’s red-and-white national flag in favour of one similar to what it used as a Soviet republic.

The leader also pushed the country to abandon its red-and-white national flag, in favour of one similar to that which it used as a Soviet republic. Belarus' top security agency propagates fear ...

Within a year of assuming office, Lukashenko held a referendum that changed Belarus’s white-and-red flag to one closely resembling the old Soviet design. He told World War II veterans ...