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February 06, 2023
Belarusian Handed Five Years For Comment On Deadly Police Shooting

A Belarusian businessman has been sentenced to five years in prison for "insulting" disputed ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka while commenting on a deadly police shoot-out at a Minsk apartment that left a KGB officer and an IT worker dead in September 2021.

February 06, 2023
Wider Europe Briefing: A Consensus On New Russian Oil Caps; And Why Ukraine's EU Plans Are Too Ambitious

I'm RFE/RL Europe Editor Rikard Jozwiak, and this week I'm drilling down on two major issues: the debates over Belarus sanctions and Russian oil caps, and what they really have in common; and why Ukraine is being overly ambitious in its attempts to join the European Union in two years.
February 03, 2023
Taking No Chances: Along The Ukraine-Belarus Border, A War of Nerves And Drones

Ukrainian units are using drones to monitor a long expanse of marsh and woodland for a possible surprise offensive originating from Belarus. Kyiv fears a repeat of the unsuccessful Russian thrust that started the war nearly a year ago.
February 01, 2023
Latvia Says It Would Not Send Athletes To Olympics If Russia, Belarus Are Allowed To Compete

Latvia wouldn't send athletes to an Olympic Games that included Russian and Belarusian nationals while the invasion in Ukraine is ongoing, a spokesperson for the country's Olympic Committee said on February 1.
February 01, 2023
U.S. Official Asserts Sanctions Cutting Off Russian War Machine

Western sanctions against Russia have been "very effective" in cutting off Russia's war machine, a U.S. official asserted, amid growing questions about Moscow's ability to circumvent the measures.
January 31, 2023
Court Rejects Belarusian Oppositionists Appeal Against Their Imprisonment

The Minsk City Court has rejected appeals filed by the leader of the Belarusian opposition United Civic Party (AHP) Mikalay Kazlou and his two associates against their imprisonment for participating in a march protesting the official results of a disputed August 2020 presidential election.
January 30, 2023
Belarus's Lukashenka In Zimbabwe On Trip Aimed At Increasing Cooperation With Russian Ally

Belarusian strongman Alyaksandr Lukashenka arrived on January 30 in Zimbabwe on a visit to cement economic and political ties between the two countries that are both close allies of Russia.
January 30, 2023
The Taste Of Exile: Belarusian Couple Restart Cheese Business In Poland

Yulia Bachurynskaya and Alyaksey Kuchko ran a successful cheese production farm in the north of Belarus. Now the pair have rebuilt the business in Poland, catering mostly to Belarusian emigres.
January 29, 2023
Amid Worries Over Russian Forces In Belarus, Former Security Officer Says Belarusian Conscripts Won't Fight

Joint exercises this month between Belarusian and Russian armed forces renewed worries about a new offensive against Ukraine from the north. Even if that happens, a former Belarusian intelligence official says Belarusian conscripts aren’t likely to fight.
January 27, 2023
U.S. Envoy To OSCE Warns Russia Trying To 'Wipe Out' Ukrainian Sovereignty, Incorporate Belarus

The U.S. envoy to the OSCE warned at a meeting of the organization's Permanent Council on January 26 that Russia is trying "to wipe out the sovereignty of an entire, independent nation" in Ukraine.
January 26, 2023
Tsikhanouskaya Calls On Croatia To Distinguish Lukashenka's Regime From Belarusians

Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the exiled leader of the democratic opposition in Belarus, has called on Croatia "to distinguish between" the Belarusian people and the regime of the authoritarian ruler of her country, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, and to do the same between Belarus and Russia.
January 26, 2023
Asian Olympic Council Says Russians, Belarusians Can Compete In Asian Games

Russian and Belarusian athletes will be allowed to participate in this year's Asian Games despite Russia's war in Ukraine, the Olympic Council of Asia said.

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Tuesday 7 February 2023

Belarusian Handed Five Years For Comment On Deadly Police Shooting

Wider Europe Briefing: A Consensus On New Russian Oil Caps; And Why Ukraine's EU Plans Are Too Ambitious

Taking No Chances: Along The Ukraine-Belarus Border, A War of Nerves And Drones

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Amid Worries Over Russian Forces In Belarus, Former Security Officer Says Belarusian Conscripts Won't Fight

U.S. Envoy To OSCE Warns Russia Trying To 'Wipe Out' Ukrainian Sovereignty, Incorporate Belarus

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Belarus

Tuesday 7 February 2023

Belarusian Handed Five Years For Comment On Deadly Police Shooting

Wider Europe Briefing: A Consensus On New Russian Oil Caps; And Why Ukraine's EU Plans Are Too Ambitious

Taking No Chances: Along The Ukraine-Belarus Border, A War of Nerves And Drones

Latvia Says It Would Not Send Athletes To Olympics If Russia, Belarus Are Allowed To Compete

U.S. Official Asserts Sanctions Cutting Off Russian War Machine

Court Rejects Belarusian Oppositionists Appeal Against Their Imprisonment

Belarus's Lukashenka In Zimbabwe On Trip Aimed At Increasing Cooperation With Russian Ally

The Taste Of Exile: Belarusian Couple Restart Cheese Business In Poland

Amid Worries Over Russian Forces In Belarus, Former Security Officer Says Belarusian Conscripts Won't Fight

U.S. Envoy To OSCE Warns Russia Trying To 'Wipe Out' Ukrainian Sovereignty, Incorporate Belarus

Tsikhanouskaya Calls On Croatia To Distinguish Lukashenka's Regime From Belarusians

Asian Olympic Council Says Russians, Belarusians Can Compete In Asian Games

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Ukrainian Nobel Peace Prize Winner: 'This Violence, This Cruelty Have Become Part Of Russian Culture'

'Beaten Very Badly': Now In Legal Limbo, Ukrainian Inmates Freed When Russia Left Kherson Describe Life Under Occupation

Ukrainian Wives Of Fallen Soldiers Come Together For Support Online

Wider Europe Briefing: A Consensus On New Russian Oil Caps; And Why Ukraine's EU Plans Are Too Ambitious

Freezing Cold Puts Iran's Natural-Gas Ambitions On Ice

Top Trending

In Ukraine's Donbas, Intensifying Russian Offensives -- An Omen Of Things To Come?

'They Will Send The Army To Ukraine': Bulgarian Social Media Flooded With Rumors Of Military Draft

Interview: Writer Vladimir Sorokin Says Russia's Unresolved Historical Traumas Have Now 'Taken The Form Of War'

Denounced By Her Classmates, Anti-War Russian Teen Faces A Long Prison Term

Russia's 2021 Census Results Raise Red Flags Among Experts And Ethnic-Minority Activists

Ukraine Will Hold Bakhmut, Zelenskiy Vows, Amid Warnings About New Offensive In The East

The Week In Russia: Stalingrad And A 'Stupid, Criminal War'

European Ban On Russian Diesel, Other Oil Products Takes Effect

Situation 'Very Difficult' In East, Zelenskiy Says, As Ukraine Calls Again For Jets, Weapons

Biden To Speak With Zelenskiy As Ukraine's Calls For Fighter Jets Grow Louder

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