Belarus has freed Sergey Tikhanovsky, a key dissident figure and the husband of exiled opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, following a rare visit by a senior US official, Tikhanovskaya’s team ...

The forcible diversion of a flight from Greece to Lithuania to Belarus has not only sparked a diplomatic incident; it’s also made big changes for flying in Europe, and, possibly, beyond.

In recent months, Belarus has been steadily morphing into what many describe as the “North Korea of Europe.” Thousands have been detained in connection with protest activities and nearly 500 ...

Between January 1 and June 22 this year, nearly 14,000 illegal border-crossing attempts were recorded at the Belarus-Poland ...

Weeks after Germany’s new center-right government began imposing checks on its border with Poland and turning back some ...

Europe’s longest-serving leader, President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko of Belarus, cruised to his seventh election victory in a row on Sunday in a contest that his exiled opponents dismissed as a ...

Lukashenko was dubbed "Europe's last dictator" early in his tenure. Despite periodic efforts to appease the West, the only leader post-Soviet Belarus has knownhas lived up to the nickname.

Ben Hodges, former commander of U.S. Army forces in Europe, said the air defenses of Belarus were closely integrated with those of Russia. "If you had anything happening in the Belarus airspace, ...

On death row in Belarus, the only country in Europe that still uses the death penalty, they are never told when they will be executed. And when it happens, it is all kept as a state secret.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said his country has started taking delivery of Russian tactical nuclear weapons, some of which he said were three times more powerful than the atomic ...

Belarus is run by a former collective-farm manager and is known for manufacturing tractors. Now the former Soviet republic wants to be known as the Silicon Valley of Eastern Europe.

Belarus concludes its presidential election on Sunday, but the winner is already beyond doubt. The outcome has been consistent for the past 30 years. Since 1994, one man's name — Alexander ...