Forensic experts tasked by the OSCE to review an investigation into the death of a Belarusian opposition journalist have backed the authorities' verdict that he hanged himself.
The U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs has met in Minsk with Belarusian officials and opposition figures.
As Belarus prepares for a presidential election next month, few doubt longtime leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka will win reelection. One of the leading candidates running against Lukashenka is Uladzimer Nyaklyaeu, who spoke to RFE/RL's Claire Bigg in Prague.
Police have detained two opposition activists in Minsk.
Authoritarian Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka has predicted a landslide victory for himself in general elections scheduled for December 19.
Dozens of opposition activists gathered along a street in central Minsk to demand it be renamed after prominent Belarusian writer Vasyl Bykau.
Belarusian police have opened a criminal investigation into the vandalism of a memorial to Stalin-era victims near Minsk.
The Minsk Oblast authorities have sent a group of investigators to the town of Kurapaty, near Minsk, to investigate the reported vandalism of a memorial to Stalinist terror victims.
Ukrainian authorities have defended the arrests of four well-known Belarusian opposition activists on drug charges.
Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Philip Gordon sat down with RFE/RL for a wide-ranging interview on the U.S. position on everything from the jailed bloggers in Azerbaijan to Ukraine's improving relationship with Moscow, Georgia's right to territorial sovereignty, to Russia's role in brokering a deal over Nagorno-Karabakh.
The governor of the southwestern Belarusian region where a tragic factory accident killed 14 people has declared two days of mourning to commemorate the victims.
Protestant Christians in Minsk have asked Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka to protect an embattled evangelical church in the capitalю
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