Fifty aquatic warblers have been relocated from a Belarusian nature reserve to Lithuania in an attempt to boost the rare bird's numbers. RFE/RL shot unique footage of the venture, which is a joint initiative of the EU-funded LIFE Magni Ducatus Acrola project and the UNDP-GEF Wetlands project.
Amid falling birth rates, a hospital in Belarus has refused to perform abortions since 2015 to fight what doctors say is the country’s dangerous dependency on the procedure.
After a Russian blogger exposed a young Belarusian for playing a disgruntled Ukrainian in a Russian state TV report criticizing Euromaidan, the man came forward and confessed to a "monstrous mistake."
For one Chechen mercenary and his family, Belarus was supposed to be the springboard to a better life in the West. But the former soldier of fortune has settled in, and now wields nothing more dangerous than a cattle-herding crook.
Researchers from BirdLife Belarus with the support of the Frankfurt Zoological Society are trying to learn more about a rare bat that hunts birds in flight.
A road is being built that cuts across one of Europe's largest natural wetlands, in southern Belarus. Environmentalists say breeding grounds for rare birds are under threat.
Medical bargains are luring patients from across the rest of the former Soviet Union to Belarus.
The return of coin currency in Belarus has led to a spike in choking cases among young children.
