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

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

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,” ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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.