Rights groups, activists and independent media in Russia and Belarus endured increased government scrutiny, repressive laws ...

The creation of an investment cluster of Bashkortostan and Belarus was discussed during a meeting of Belarusian President ...

Tech has been one of the few relatively liberalised sectors in ex-Soviet Belarus's state-dominated economy. It experienced a ...

Ukraine’s allies have warned against the European Union reopening Russian gas pipelines as part of a prospective peace ...

Since the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, opened on the same day as Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 47th president in the USA, the news coverage of the WEF annual meeting 2025 ...

The European Commission has proposed further tariffs on a range of agricultural products and fertilizers from Russia and ...

As the election in Belarus is labelled a “sham”, Hanna Liubakova joins Emma Nelson to discuss what lies ahead for Alexander ...

Belarus’ Presidential Press Service via AP, File Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya holds a photo of her imprisoned husband, Syarhei Tsikhanouski, at the annual World Economic Forum ...

President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, a close ally of Russia’s leader, Vladimir V. Putin, has been making signs of reaching out ...

Belarus is holding a presidential election this week which is expected to secure a seventh term for Alexander Lukashenko, often called “Europe’s last dictator,” reported AP. Lukashenko, who has ruled ...

Belarus was part of the Soviet Union until its collapse in 1991. The Slavic nation of 9 million people is sandwiched between Russia and Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, the latter three all NATO ...