Belarusian authorities today ordered a Russian human rights activist to leave the country after briefly detaining him.
Well-known activist Andrei Yurov, who traveled to Minsk this week to assess the human rights situation in Belarus, was detained on March 16.
A former Belarusian opposition presidential candidate who apparently fled Belarus this week in defiance of an order barring him from leaving town has sent an audio message saying he is out of the country and doing well.
The deal calls for Belarus's first nuclear facility, at a site near the border with Latvia, to come fully online by 2018.
The Interstate Council of the Eurasian Economic Community, the highest body of the Customs Union between Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan, is meeting today in Minsk.
The wife of Ales Mikhalevich, who opposed the entrenched President Alyaksandr Lukashenka in the December 19 election and wrote on his blog on March 14 that he is "in a zone that is not accessible for the Belarusian KGB," confirmed to RFE/RL that he had left Belarus.
A dozen Kyrgyz activists have picketed the Belarusian Embassy in Bishkek to demand the extradition of ousted Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiev
The Belarusian prosecutor at the Minsk trial of two Russian citizens accused of taking part in "mass unrest" in December has asked the judge to fine each defendant some $6,000.
Belarus is cropping up with conspicuous frequency in the context of continued arms deliveries to Muammar Qaddafi’s embattled regime.
The U.S. says its 2011 International Women of Courage include honorees from Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Belarus whose "quiet moral authority has come from putting the well being of others before their own."
Former Belarusian opposition presidential candidate Andrey Sannikau has marked his 57th birthday in the KGB pretrial detention center in Minsk. Sannikau's relatives say KGB officials refused on March 7 to accept a package with food and gifts for him.
Posters calling for the immediate release of detained Belarusian activist Zmitser Dashkevich were pasted on walls and fences in Minsk over the weekend.
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