Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka has announced that the country’s next presidential election will be held in 2020, but the parliamentary elections will be held in 2019.
Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka has been invited to a dinner hosted by European Council President Donald Tusk to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Eastern Partnership in Brussels on May 13.
Posting a video on the Internet years ago of the German industrial metal band Rammstein has landed a man in Belarus in hot water with authorities who have charged him with producing and distributing pornographic materials.
An independent TV channel based in Poland and broadcasting into Belarus says all computers seized by Belarusian police during a recent raid of their Minsk office have been returned.
Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka has lambasted Moscow for what he called "sanctions" against Belarusian goods and hinted he could block Russian oil deliveries to Europe.
The man in charge of the cows that led Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka to compare their treatment to conditions at a Nazi concentration camp isn't the only one questioning the president's judgment.
Nearly seven years ago, an Iranian man based in Belarus was accused of brutally killing his mother and brother in Tehran. His family and rights watchdogs say he will face torture and execution if Belarus goes through with its plans to expel him to his homeland.
Belarus is the last country in Europe to have the death penalty. Since 1991, about 300 death sentences have been carried out in the country. The condemned prisoners are shot in the head. The body is not given to the family and the place of burial remains a state secret.
The number of known judicial executions around the world declined by nearly one-third in 2018 compared to 2017, reaching the lowest level in at least a decade, Amnesty International says in its annual report on death sentences and executions.
Belarusian police have searched headquarters of the popular Belsat TV, a subsidiary of Poland's Telewizja Polska.
Two activists in Belarus have been detained as protests continued over the fate of a wooded area on the outskirts of Minsk where at least 30,000 people killed by Soviet authorities were buried during the 1930s and 1940s.
The foreign ministers of the European Union and six former Soviet republics will meet next month to endorse an extension of the Eastern Partnership Program.
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