Ihar Tutau built his own tank and drives it around his village in Belarus. The Soviet-era armor has made him something of a local celebrity. (RFE/RL's Belarus Service)
Every Christmas season, dozens of Belarusians parade through the capital Minsk dressed as Santa Claus or his local equivalent, Grandfather Frost. This year, a group of Santas in wheelchairs were able to take part for the first time, a year after officials refused to give them permission.
Russian President Vladimir Putin met with the leaders of several former Soviet republics in St. Petersburg on December 26, a day after the 25th anniversary of the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
The Associated Press said on December 23 it will seek to overturn a Belarusian court ruling finding that it damaged the reputation of a dairy company in a story about farmland contaminated by fallout from the Chornobyl nuclear accident.
President Barack Obama has approved legislation that would consolidate oversight of U.S. nonmilitary broadcasting in the hands of a single chief executive, an overhaul that supporters laud as a much-needed reform but critics warn could endanger journalistic independence.
Belarusian Foreign Minister Uladzimer Makey has met with top Georgian officials in Tbilisi on a trip on which he will open an embassy for Belarus.
Azerbaijani authorities say a Russian blogger who is wanted in Baku on separatism charges has been detained in Belarus.
Belarusian authorities have launched investigations of about 10 Belarusian citizens suspected of fighting in eastern Ukraine, the country's foreign minister says.
Two former officers of the Belarusian KGB and a former police officer are among 17 people convicted and sentenced to prison in a high-profile drug case.
A Belarusian man authorities say has openly espoused neo-Nazi ideas is on trial in Belarus along with five other defendants on charges including inciting ethnic hatred.
Two pro-Russian activists have been detained in Belarus on suspicion of inciting ethnic discord.
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