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A senior EU official heads to Minsk amid reports that Alyaksandr Lukashenka will be invited to Brussels. And Vladimir Putin prepares to give what the Kremlin is describing as an important speech. Listen to the new Power Vertical Briefing.
Activists say a court in Belarus has jailed a Russian professor for six days on a hooliganism charge after police barged into a lecture he was giving on the history of anarchism.
EU ambassadors have agreed to recognize the European aspirations of Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine, according to a draft statement of next month’s Eastern Partnership summit seen by RFE/RL.
If Zapad-2017 illustrated one thing, it is how troubled the relationship between Vladimir Putin and Alyaksandr Lukashenka has become. (The views expressed in this blog post do not necessarily reflect the views of RFE/RL.)
EU sources say the bloc is ready to welcome Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka to its Eastern Partnership (EaP) summit next month.
A Belarusian firm has become a player in the global theme park business by producing robotic dinosaurs. (RFE/RL's Belarus Service)
Belarusian student Alyaksandra Chychykava was chosen as Miss Wheelchair World in the first-ever international edition of the pageant held in Warsaw.
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NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says the Western alliance is assessing whether Russia has pulled out all the troops it sent to Belarus for joint exercises last month that were watched warily by neighbors.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the Western alliance is assessing whether Russia has pulled out all troops sent to Belarus for joint exercise Zapad 2017 last month.
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