

World Oct 28

In a YouTube interview released Wednesday, Interior Minister Yuri Karayev said he thinks that police have been too tolerant of protesters and that they will take a tougher line. He warned that authorities wouldn’t hesitate to approve the use of…
By Vladimir Isachenkov, Associated Press
World Oct 26

Factory workers, students and owners of small businesses in Belarus began a strike to demand that authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko resign after more than two months of protests following a disputed election.
By Associated Press
World Sep 23

Several European countries used the occasion to reiterate that they don’t recognize the results of the election and refused to regard Lukashenko as the legitimate president.
By Yuras Karmanau, Associated Press
World Sep 13

Many in the crowd, which the human rights group Viasna estimated as numbering more than 150,000, carried placards critical of Russia, reflecting concerns about President Alexander Lukashenko’s planned meeting on Monday with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
By Yuras Karmanau, Associated Press
Sep 12

By Yuras Karmanau, Associated Press
About 10,000 women marched noisily through the Belarusian capital on Saturday, beating pots and pans and shouting for the resignation of the country’s authoritarian president in the 35th consecutive day of large anti-government protests.
Sep 10

By Yuras Karmanau, Associated Press
Maria Kolesnikova said that agents of Belarus' state security committee put a bag on her head and drove her to the border with Ukraine before she fought her removal from Belarus and was jailed.
Sep 09

By Associated Press
Serbia has suspended all foreign military exercises on the eve of planned maneuvers with Russia in Belarus. Serbian Defense Minister Aleksandar Vulin said the government’s decision came “after tremendous and undeserved pressure” from the European Union.
Sep 01

By Yuras Karmanau, Associated Press
Police in Belarus have detained scores of protesters in the capital of Minsk as university students took to the streets on the first day of classes to demand the resignation of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko.
Sep 01

By Kostya Manenkov, Daria Litvinova, Associated Press
Even before the Aug. 9 presidential election in Belarus ended, a poll worker in Minsk said she was asked to sign a document summing up its result, with the vote totals left blank.
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