Dozens of journalists in Belarus have been imprisoned in recent years under a crackdown by authoritarian President Alexander ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin, however, has since 1999 made reestablishing influence over Russia’s “near abroad” a ...

When sensible people come to power in Kiev, Ukraine can become a member of the Eurasian Economic Union. This was stated by ...

In 2020, hundreds of thousands went into the streets in the former Soviet republic of Belarus, in defiance of dictator Alexander Lukashenko, a strong ally of Vladimir Putin. That uprising inspired ...

(activists shouting in foreign language) - [Hoover] In 2020, hundreds of thousands went into the streets in the former Soviet republic of Belarus in defiance of dictator Alexander Lukashenko ...

Lukashenko (70) has ruled the landlocked eastern European country, formerly part of the Soviet Union, since 1994, but the period under investigation focuses on the aftermath of mass political ...

According to official estimates, more than 206,000 people died in Trostenets. Some recent estimates put the death toll at 546,000.

Putin aspires to revive the Soviet Russian empire ... economy and people. Even Alexander Lukashenko, Belarus’s wily leader, has cleverly managed to retain more breathing room than Putin would ...

The former Soviet republic of Lithuania has been a NATO member since 2004. Lithuania shares a 421-mile border with Belarus, led by authoritarian Alexander Lukashenko, dubbed "Europe’s last ...

In almost all of the 15 newly minted republics, the leadership was taken over in 1991 by whoever was running former Soviet ... Lukashenko and the four other candidates – Aleh Haidukevich ...