Belarus has announced it is seeking a $3 billion loan over 10 years from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in return for some economic reforms.
A memorial to commemorate the more than 6,000 Jews from Czechoslovakia deported by Nazi Germany to Minsk and killed there in 1945 has been unveiled in the Belarusian capital.
А Belarusian court has sentenced a man to death for two fatal robberies, the second death sentence this year to be handed down in the only country in Europe that still uses it.
A Belarusian court has fined an opposition party leader and an activist for holding unsanctioned rallies.
Capitalism met communism head on in Belarus this week with the opening of a new Soviet-themed shopping mall in Minsk. The "Leningrad" center uses communist posters, clothing, and other iconic relics of socialism to help ply its wares. We're not sure if Comrade Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin would approve...
Belarus's President Alyaksandr Lukashenka has been inaugurated for the fifth time following an election that was judged by Western monitors to be neither free nor fair.
The UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus has called on the country to "engage in a broad reform of its oppressive media governance."
A Lithuanian court has jailed a former employee of the country's air traffic control service after finding him guilty of spying for neighboring Belarus.
Svetlana Alexievich, the Belarusian author who won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature, says she wants to use the spotlight cast on her by the award to try to spark a "revolution in the minds of people."
At least 120 people gathered in the Belarusian capital, Minsk, to commemorate victims of repression by Soviet authorities during Josef Stalin's "Great Terror."
Belarus’s secret services say they have detained members of a group suspected of providing illegal spying services to private clients.
The European Union and the United States have suspended most sanctions against Belarus, citing "improving relations" and the release of several activists that Brussels and Washington considered political prisoners.
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