Belarus

MINSK, Belarus—More than 100,000 Belarusians marched through the capital Minsk on Sept. 20 in the sixth straight weekend of protests against President Alexander Lukashenko, keeping pressure on the veteran leader ...

Anonymous hackers leaked the personal data of 1,000 Belarusian police officers in retaliation for a crackdown on street ...

GENEVA—The United Nations agreed on Friday to step up monitoring of reported rights abuses during Belarus's crackdown on ...

GENEVA—A representative of Belarus, backed by Russia, China, and Venezuela, tried and failed to limit speeches as the ...

KYIV, Ukraine—The main opposition candidate in Belarus' disputed presidential election said on Sept. 17 that activists are compiling ...

MOSCOW—Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said on Wednesday he had asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to supply Belarus with ...

MOSCOW—Belarus' authoritarian president visited Russia on Sept. 14 in a bid to secure more loans and political support, ...

MOSCOW—Belarus' authoritarian president visited Russia Monday in a bid to secure more loans and political support, as demonstrations ...

MOSCOW—At least 100,000 Belarusian protesters took to the streets of Minsk on Sept. 13 in one of the ...

KYIV, Ukraine—Belarusian authorities on Sept. 9 detained one of the two last leading members of an opposition council ...

Nobel prize-winning author Svetlana Alexievich accused the Belarus authorities of terrorizing their own people on Wednesday as another ...

Protests that began in May in Belarus against the authoritarian regime of President Alexander Lukashenko have only increased ...

KYIV—Prominent opposition leader Maria Kolesnikova was detained by Belarusian authorities on Tuesday, a border official said, after thwarting ...

MOSCOW—Artur Khomenko, an entrepreneur from Minsk, said police officers began beating him with their fists and truncheons after ...

MOSCOW—Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko promoted hardline loyalists to top posts in his security apparatus on Sept. 3 in ...

MOSCOW—Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko promoted hardline loyalists to top posts in his security apparatus on Thursday in an ...

KYIV, Ukraine—Dozens of journalists gathered on Sep. 2 outside a police station in the capital of Belarus to ...

Commentary The post-election turmoil shaking Belarus has the typical storyline of a geriatric dictatorship losing its ability to ...

KYIV, Ukraine—Authorities in Belarus detained scores of protesters on Tuesday as university students took to the streets of ...

MINSK, Belarus—Even before the Aug. 9 presidential election in Belarus ended, a poll worker in Minsk said she ...

VILNIUS—Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia imposed travel bans on President Alexander Lukashenko and 29 other Belarusian officials on Aug. ...

VILNIUS —Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia imposed travel bans on President Alexander Lukashenko and 29 other Belarusian officials on ...

MOSCOW—Belarus, shaken by three weeks of massive protests against its authoritarian president, on Aug. 29 cracked down hard ...

U.S. Deputy State Secretary Stephen Biegun called for Belarusian authorities to give its people the right to “choose ...

Belarusians chanting "Happy Birthday, you rat" and flying red-and-white opposition flags gathered near President Alexander Lukashenko's residence on ...

MOSCOW—Belarus, shaken by three weeks of massive protests against its authoritarian president, on Saturday cracked down hard on ...

MINSK, Belarus—Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that he stands ready to send police to Belarus if protests there ...