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Belarus holds elections despite opposition's calls for a boycott

September 23, 2012 10:20
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Belarus opened the polls for its parliamentary election on Sunday, despite calls for a boycott from the country's two main opposition parties.

EU condemns Belarus for execution of alleged Minsk subway bombers

March 19, 2012 09:20
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The two men executed "were not accorded due process, including the right to defend themselves," according to the EU's head of foreign policy, Catherine Ashton.

Belarus "clapping" protest broken up by police

News DeskJuly 4, 2011 01:15
“The USSR has come back,’’ Tatyana Segalskaya, a 30-year-old demonstrator, told the Associated Press. “It is dictatorship in the middle of Europe. People are detained for nothing. The worse the economic concerns are, the tougher repressions become.’’

Belarusians organize flash mob protests

July 2, 2011 13:21
The protests are being organized anonymously through social networking sites like Facebook.

Russia halves its electricity exports to Belarus over $54 million debt

News DeskJune 10, 2011 23:45
The electricity provided by the Russian electricity exporter represents 12 percent of Belarus’s electricity needs.

Belarus moves into uncharted territory

June 7, 2011 07:27
VITEBSK, Belarus — A current of anxiety marred a sunny Sunday in this sleepy city.

Belarus faces an economic precipice

May 31, 2011 06:34
MINSK — Across this former Soviet republic of 10 million, the mood is of panic and quiet desperation.

On Location: Minsk — Crackdown in Belarus

Mathew CharlesApril 26, 2011 14:15

Video: Andrei Sannikov and the high price of speaking out in Belarus, Europe's last dictatorship.

Belarus: where bad news gets worse

April 17, 2011 08:43
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Belarus is stuck somewhere in the 1960s; the thought of a serious terror attack has about as much relevance as a Martian invasion.
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