Belarus' top security agency kept its fearsome Soviet-era name of the KGB, and it's the only country in Europe to keep the death penalty, with executions carried out with a gunshot to the back of ...

On 26 May 2023, Russia and Belarus took a further escalatory step by signing an agreement to allow the deployment of Russian nuclear warheads on Belarusian territory. The EU is worried about the ...

On Monday, the election commission in Belarus announced that Lukashenko won the election, with nearly 87% of the vote. The Belarusian opposition in exile, along with other European leaders, have ...

European officials accuse Belarus’ authoritarian regime of allowing growing numbers of migrants to cross the border into Lithuania unimpeded as part of a high-stakes game with the European Union.

Belarus rolls out new rules that will allow European travelers to stay in the country for 30 days without a visa as Lukashenko reaches out to the West. Belarus broadens visa-free travel for 35 ...

Countries bordering Belarus on Thursday warned the migrant crisis on the European Union's eastern borders could escalate into a military confrontation while Ukraine said it would deploy thousands ...

U.S. Ambassador to Belarus Julie Fisher, who has been refused a visa to assume her post, testified during the same hearing that Lukashenko has become ever-more reliant on backing by Russia.

It was clear who the losers were in the dispute between Poland and Belarus. The thousands of migrants who became stranded on the border in freezing conditions had their dreams of a new future in ...

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia met with President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko of Belarus on Saturday amid questions over how far Minsk will allow itself to be drawn into the war.

As Belarus’s campaign of weaponized migration spreads across the Baltics and into Poland, the European Union must treat it as an attempt to destabilize the entire bloc and react swiftly, even if ...

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power for over 30 years, is poised to extend his rule in an election that concludes Sunday and that the opposition ...