In some countries, data on economic output can be patchy, unreliable, or nonexistent. But a new study suggests there's another way to measure economic growth -- by looking at night-lights data from satellites.
The Belarusian opposition is reeling from the publication of an online diary in which an activist admits infiltrating the opposition for the KGB secret service. The confession, which contains damaging accusations against opposition leaders, has raised questions both about its authenticity and its author's motives.
Relatives of three prominent missing people in Belarus have expressed their concerns regarding a planned visit by Belarus President Alyaksandr Lukashenka to Lithuania later this month, RFE/RL's Belarus Service reports.
Valer Rybchanka told RFE/RL from detention that he and Svyatlana Mikhalchanka had not been given any specific reason for their detention.
The head of Belarus's newly formed morality watchdog once wrote a steamy novel about the Clinton White House.
The chairwoman of Belarus's Central Election Commission, Lidziya Yarmoshyna, has rejected President Alyaksandr Lukashenka's recent statement that his vote tally in the last presidential election was tampered with, RFE/RL's Belarus Service reports.
Two Belarusian Air Force pilots were killed when their SU-27 fighter plane crashed during an aerial acrobatics display at an air show in central Poland, police have said.
The presidents of Russia and Belarus failed to find agreement on issues ranging from emergency credits to gas prices when they met for their first bilateral meeting in four months.
A military exercise in Russia marks the first official test of the new Collective Operational Reaction Forces, created within the framework of the Collective Security Treaty Organization. But the exercises have been overshadowed by profound divisions within the CSTO concerning the new force.
Parishioners of The New Life evangelical Christian church in Minsk have refused to vacate the church's building, despite demands to do so by Minsk city authorities, RFE/RL's Belarus Service reports.
A man attacked and stabbed Bishop Safron in an Orthodox Church in the eastern Belarusian city of Mahileu on August 23, RFE/RL's Belarus Service reports.
A nonstop concert in the building of the evangelical Christian "The New Life" Church in Minsk that began in an attempt to thwart Minsk authorities from seizing the keys to the church and expelling the congregation continues the next day, RFE/RL's Belarus Service reports.
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