Amid the chaos in Eastern Europe in the wake of World War I, Poland and Soviet Russia fought an undeclared war that ended with the signing of the Treaty of Riga on March 18, 1921. The settlement ...

UEFA has changed the hosting plan for its 2026 European Championship for indoor soccer because Russia’s military ally Belarus ...

RIGA, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Latvia's government decided on Tuesday to close one of its two border crossing points with Belarus as the prime minister accused Minsk of again using illegal migrants as ...

MINSK, 18 March (BelTA) – The conclusion of the Peace of Riga is a tragic event in the history of Belarus, Director of the Institute of History at the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus ...

MINSK, 26 May (BelTA) - Russian Ambassador to Belarus Yevgeny Lukyanov commented on the recent incident in Riga with the removal of the Belarusian national flag, BelTA has learned.

1921 - The Treaty of Riga divides Belarus between Poland and Soviet Russia. Stalin's purges 1930s - Belarus suffers heavily from the purges of intellectuals and political opponents ordered by ...

Belarus expelled all Latvian diplomats from the country on Monday, prompting a tit-for-tat response from Riga, as an international crisis deepened over the forced landing of a commercial flight in ...

The former flag of Belarus, center, flies in Riga, Latvia on Monday. The use of the historic flag, a symbol of the opposition party, led to the expulsion of Latvian diplomats from Belarus.

Belarus on Friday opened a criminal case against Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics and Riga Mayor Martins Stakis after they replaced the Belarusian state flag with a historical Belarusian ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Belarus on Friday opened a criminal case against Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics and Riga Mayor Martins Stakis after they replaced ...