The West needs to keep up pressure on Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko to try to force democratic change, newly ...

Police officers detain Nina Bahinskaya, 73, during an opposition rally to protest the official presidential election results in Minsk, Belarus, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020AP Photo ...

U.S. special envoy Keith Kellogg met Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk, the highest-profile visit of a U.S.

After a high-level U.S. visit to Belarus led to the release of 14 prisoners, observers have been left wondering what autocrat Alexander Lukashenko may have secured in return. U.S. President Donald ...

Tikhanovsky, 46, had been imprisoned for more than five years. He planned to run against Lukashenko in the August 2020 presidential election, but was arrested and detained weeks before the vote.

The outreach to Belarus’s autocratic leader, Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, comes as the country has released at least 14 political ...

Belarusian authorities released by presidential pardon 14 prisoners, all jailed as a result of politically motivated ...

Longtime former RFE/RL journalist Ihar Karnei was arrested in July 2023 after the KGB came to his home in Belarus. Freed in a ...

The State Security Committee of Belarus (KGB) conducted a multi-stage special operation called "Harpoon", which disrupted ...

Sergei Tikhanovsky had planned to challenge Alexander Lukashenko in the 2020 election, but was detained before the vote.

The country’s authoritarian regime continues to hold more than 1,100 political prisoners in abusive conditions.