In our quest to understand the world, there are no countries we want to shy away from. We spent quite some time contemplating ...

Siarhei Tsikhanouski was in solitary confinement in a Belarus prison for most of the past five years ...

Vadzim Bulaty, a political asylee from Belarus who opposed the country's seven-term president ... And he fears what could happen to his eldest. "I ran away from one dictatorship," he said. "And I ...

Belarus is frequently called Europe’s last dictatorship. It gained its independence in 1991 during the breakup of the Soviet Union, but it hasn’t really left socialism behind.

Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, basketball star-turned-activist Katya Snytsina, and Belarus Free Theatre co-founder Natalia Kaliada talk about taking on Lukashenko’s ...

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko was sworn in Tuesday to a seventh term, and he mocked those who derided him as “Europe’s last dictator” by saying his country has more ...

After the dismantling of Lukashenko's regime, hundreds of new air routes from all regional centers will open in Belarus. The ...

The time of dictatorship will be over, democracy will prevail. President of the European Parliament (EP) Roberta Metsola called the presidential "elections" in Belarus scheduled for January 26 a ...

But don’t confuse Belarus’s likely quiet for a lack of yearning for freedom; the courage of Belarus’s pro-democracy activists and journalists, whether at home or abroad, remains undiminished.

Lukashenko also acknowledged his regime being a dictatorship but said it would still be better than democracy in Ukraine. “Listen, a dictatorship like the one in Belarus is better than a democracy ...

LOGOISK, 7 January (BelTA) – Having a dictatorship like Belarus’ is better than having a democracy like Ukraine’s. Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko made the statement as he visited a ...

Lukashenko also warned that Belarus would likely not “survive as a state” if it were drawn more directly into the war in Ukraine: “We need to hold out. Let them say we have a dictatorship here or ...