Lessons from Belarus: Never be grateful just because it could be worse

I bet you can’t imagine this happening in your country. I couldn’t either — until it did. For me, it all started with a “thank you” in 2017. That spring, my best friend and I had called an Uber to take us to the “anti-parasite” protest in Minsk. At the …

Australia, Canada, UK Condemn Belarus for Repression, Rights Abuses

Home Australia Australia, Canada, UK Condemn Belarus for Repression, Rights Abuses Several hundred people convicted of extremism and other politically related offences have been released since mid-2024 in what analysts see as a bid by Lukashenko to ease …

Russia, Belarus attempting to institute renewed EU migrant crisis with help from Libyan warlord, Telegraph reports

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko appear to have renewed their efforts to institute a migrant crisis within the EU with the assistance of Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar, the Telegraph reported on Aug. 9. European …

Belarus’s president states he will not run for presidency for another term

(MENAFN) Alexander Lukashenko, Belarus’s president since 1994, declared on Friday that he does not intend to run for another term. In an interview aired partially on the country’s state television, Lukashenko revealed that he had been prepared to step down …

World Reuters Australia, Canada, UK urge Belarus to end 'campaign of repression'

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The governments of Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom condemned what they called ongoing repression and human rights violations in Belarus and accused Belarusian authorities of waging a campaign to shut down …

Australia, Canada, UK urge Belarus to end 'repression'

Five years of protests in Belarus: stories of the struggle for freedom

As Anastasia Vasylchuk of the leading Belarusian human rights organization Viasna explains Five years ago in Belarus, protests began after the announcement of Alexander Lukashenko’s victory in the 2020 presidential elections. People took to the streets …

A Rally To Mark The 5th Anniversary Of The Protests In Belarus Was Held In Berlin

Photo: DW It was attended by former Charge d'Affaires of the Federal Republic of Germany in Minsk Andrea Viktorin. On Saturday, August 9, Berlin's Potsdamer Platz hosted a rally on the fifth anniversary of the "elections" in Belarus, …

Kaja Kallas: EU Donates 170 Million Euros To Civil Society In Belarus

21 Kaya Callas The EU promised to support the Belarusians on the way to democracy "as long as it takes". Immediately release all political prisoners and stop repression called the Belarusian authorities on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of …

Belarus Today: Former Political Prisoner and Oppositionist Presidential Candidate Speaks Out

In an exclusive interview with Kyiv Post’s Special Correspondent in Warsaw, Michał Kujawski, the exiled Belarusian democratic oppositionist Andrei Sannikau describes Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko as a monster who lives in fear and trades …