Belarusian authorities have detained three correspondents from Current Time in the capital, Minsk, just days before the country holds a crucial presidential election.
When DJs started playing a Soviet-era protest song, We Want Changes, at an open-air event in Belarus, a man in a dark suit pulled the plug on the sound system. The two DJs were detained. The event took place two days before a presidential election.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka have discussed the recent detainment of 33 mercenaries from the private Russian security firm Vagner Group in Belarus.
Belarus has begun loading fuel into the first of two reactors at its new Russian-built Astravets nuclear power plant, which it says it expects to become operational later this year.
Thousands of people gathered in a park in the Belarusian capital in support of opposition presidential candidate Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya after she had to cancel her campaign event following the city authorities' abrupt decision to replace her rallies in Minsk with government-organized events.
Alyaksandr Lukashenka is facing the biggest challenge to his authoritarian rule over Belarus, but has levers at his control to make sure he wins. Will it work this time?
The August 9 election is shaping up as the biggest challenge Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka has faced over more than a quarter-century in power. It's also turning into a challenge for Moscow, which grows impatient with Lukashenka's antics but also fears uncertainty if he were to lose.
A Minsk rally for Belarusian opposition presidential candidate Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya has been canceled, just hours after the candidate's campaign chief was detained and "warned" by authorities not to stage what they called "unsanctioned" gatherings.
Ballot boxes will sit for five nights, unsupervised, amid early voting which has begun in the Belarusian presidential election. It's just one part of the process ringing alarm bells about election rigging in a country where previous elections have not been deemed free or fair by Western observers.
Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka has ordered his government to invite Ukrainian and Russian prosecutors to Belarus to investigate a group of 33 mercenaries from the private Russian security firm Vagner Group who've been detained in Minsk.
Russia has issued a thinly veiled threat against Belarus over the detention of 33 Russian mercenaries who were arrested at gunpoint near the capital, Minsk, last week.
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