Rights groups, activists and independent media in Russia and Belarus endured increased government scrutiny, repressive laws and even were shut down and forced to operate from exile abroad.

Human rights groups and Belarusians say they see no signs that Alexander Lukashenko is preparing to loosen his iron grip on ...

Rights groups, activists and independent media in Russia and Belarus endured increased ... played a crucial role in the anti-Lukashenko protests in Belarus. The mother of Belarusian blogger ...

The crisis threatens to overturn a decades-long effort by the United States and EU to preserve Georgian democracy, which has ...

Palina Sharenda-Panasiuk, a coordinator of the European Belarus Civil Campaign who endured over four years in the dungeons of Belarus's ruling regime, was released on February 1 this year. She arrived ...

A project manager in Belarus's once-flourishing tech industry, Andrei Dorin admits his sector is in "crisis". Tech has been ...

With many of his political opponents either jailed or exiled abroad, Alexander Lukashenko, dubbed “Europe’s last dictator,” is all but certain to add a seventh term.

Maria Zaitseva, who was widely viewed as a heroine of the democracy movement in Belarus, was killed in action on Jan. 17 near ...

Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, Belarus’s autocratic president and Russia’s closest ally, has taken steps to soften his country’s ...

"There won’t be mass protests in freezing January,” he said ... The pact followed Moscow’s revision of its nuclear doctrine, ...

The smiling face of President Alexander Lukashenko gazed out from campaign posters across Belarus on Sunday as the country held an orchestrated election virtually guaranteed to give the 70-year-old ...

after the group's boss voiced his support for anti-Lukashenko protests. Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 accelerated the exodus after Belarus was hit by Western sanctions for allowing ...