Belarus and Russia have reached a deal resolving their differences on several natural gas and oil issues.
A young man armed with an ax and a chainsaw has attacked people at a shopping center in Belarus’s capital, killing one woman and injuring another.
Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka says his country is negotiating with Iran about purchasing oil.
Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 2015, spoke to RFE/RL ahead of next week's announcement of the 2016 prize.
Svetlana Alexievich, the Belarusian author awarded the Nobel Prize for literature last year, said she can't understand what Russia's military is doing in Syria.
As the Nobel Committee prepares to announce the 2016 literature prize winner, RFE/RL spoke with the 2015 laureate, Svetlana Alexievich of Belarus, about the increasing militarization in Russia and about her next projects.
An official with the Belarusian Sports Ministry who marched in the Rio Paralympics' opening ceremony carrying a Russian flag will receive an apartment in Russia.
As former President Shimon Peres was laid to rest in Israel, old school friends remembered him in the village where he grew up. Vishnieva was then part of Poland and is now in Belarus. (RFE/RL's Belarus Service)
The courage of coming out in Belarus as a transgender person.
The United Nations' special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus, Miklos Haraszti, has said there was no real difference between the September 11 parliamentary elections and all the previous ones carried out in the country.
Belarusian lawmaker Hanna Kanapatskaya, among the first opposition parliamentarians to be elected in 20 years, says she might even take part in a presidential election in the future "if my parliamentary tenure works well."
Protesters formed a ring around opposition politicians to stop police from intervening at a demonstration in central Minsk where they demanded free and fair elections for Belarus. (RFE/RL's Belarus Service)
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