Tag: Belarus

Joint Statement on December 2 Sanctions in Response to the Situation in Belarus (US Department of State)

The text of the following statement was released by the United States of America, Canada, the European Union and the United Kingdom. Today, in response...

Accountability for the Lukashenka Regime’s Continued Acts of Repression and Disregard for International Norms (US Department of State)

In coordination with international allies and partners, today we are taking additional measures to raise the cost on Alyaksandr Lukashenka and his regime for...

Watchdog Blasts ‘Relentless Persecution’ Of Civil Society In Belarus (RFE RL)

Amnesty International has reiterated its call on Belarusian authorities to immediately to release the dozens of human rights activists who have been arbitrarily detained...

Kremlin Downplays Lukashenka’s Gas Threat As Poland Summons Belarus Attaché (RFE RL)

The Kremlin has downplayed a renewed threat by Belarusian strongman Alyaksandr Lukashenka to cut Russian gas supplies to the European Union in response to...

Eleven Arrested In Belarus For Online Comments On Russian Paratroopers’ Deaths (RFE RL)

Eleven people have been arrested in Belarus for their online comments about the deaths of two Russian paratroopers during joint Russian-Belarusian military maneuvers last...

Homes Of Journalists, Rights Activists Searched Across Belarus (RFE RL)

Belarusian law enforcement officers have searched the homes of several journalists and rights activists across the country as a crackdown on civil society and dissent continues...

Poland Maintains Restrictions On Access To Border With Belarus (RFE RL)

Poland has extended a controversial state of emergency that allows the government to continue restricting access to its border with Belarus to everyone except...

Lukashenka Says Belarus Willing To Host Russian Nuclear Weapons (RFE RL)

Belarus's authoritarian leader, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, has said that his country would be willing to host Russian nuclear weapons if NATO moved similar U.S. equipment...

Europe Is Talking to Minsk (Grigory Ioffe, The Jamestown Foundation)

On November 15 and 17, Angela Merkel, the outgoing chancellor of Germany, telephoned Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka (RBC, November 17). While, on November 14...

Minsk, Moscow Announce Joint Military Drills As NATO Prepares To Discuss Russian Troop Buildup (RFE RL)

Belarus has announced joint military exercises with Russia along its southern border as NATO gathers for a meeting to discuss its concerns about the...

Iraq Plans More Repatriation Flights As Belarus Tells Migrants They Can Go To EU (RFE RL)

Iraq is sending more planes to repatriate about 800 migrants stranded on the Belarus-Poland border, adding to nearly a thousand already brought home, the...

‘Go through, go,’ Lukashenko tells asylum seekers near EU border (Al Jazeera)

With no end in sight for the weeks-long crisis at the European Union’s eastern frontier, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has told hopeful asylum seekers...

Belarus’ oldest newspaper is banned as extremist (Yuras Karmanau, AP)

Belarus’ oldest newspaper was banned on the 115th anniversary of its founding Tuesday, the latest move in the government’s relentless crackdown on independent media...

What next for the refugees stranded between Belarus and Poland? (Arwa Ibrahim, Al Jazeera)

Ali has been held at a detention centre in Lithuania along with six members of his family since they fled southern Iraq in July. The...

Belarus says more than 100 refugees flown home (Al Jazeera)

More than 100 refugees have been flown out of Belarus, with more people scheduled to depart, according to Belarusian authorities. The group of 118 people...

The devastating ways women suffer at the Poland-Belarus border (Sara Cincurova, Al Jazeera)

When 28-year-old Shirin*, an Iraqi Kurd, crossed the border from Belarus into Poland with her seven-year-old son Ali*, she did not expect to end...