Soviet-era Belarusian dissident Syarhey Khanzhankou has passed away at the age of 74.
Belarusian authorities have suspended an investigation against a former presidential candidate who fled Belarus in 2011 and returned last year.
Belarusian authorities have detained prominent businessman Yury Chizh on suspicion of large-scale tax evasion.
Hundreds of protesters marched through the streets of Kyiv to demand that Russia release detained Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko.
A Belarusian court has sentenced eleven people, including one woman, to between nine and 19 years in prison for drug-related crimes.
A Lithuanian court has jailed a former military medical officer after finding him guilty of spying for neighboring Belarus.
More than 300 people gathered in central Minsk, to protest new rules for non-food market stalls. The February 28 rally was held to protest a new regulation that small private businesses should obtain certificates guaranteeing the quality of their products and also show proof of origin.
Two former officers from the Belarusian KGB have been put on trial in Minsk along with 15 other defendants on charges of being members of one of the country's largest distribution rings for illegal narcotics.
Some 500 people rallied in the Belarusian capital, Minsk, on February 28 to demand that the government scrap a new regulation, which protesters say imposes an unfair burden on small private businesses.
Russian President Vladimir Putin says the Union State of Russia and Belarus is continuing to develop and is setting the tone for relations between all countries that once were part of the Soviet Union.
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev says that despite the ongoing economic crisis faced by member-states of the Eurasian Economic Union (EES), the alliance's overall economic potential and market volume will remain resilient.
As owners of small businesses demonstrated against new government regulations in the Belarusian capital, a fleet of snow plows drove up close by, setting off scuffles with the protesters. (RFE/RL's Belarusian Service)
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