EU ambassadors agreed in Brussels on sanctions against senior officials and military personnel in Belarus. The French ambassador tweeted this and was confirmed by several diplomatic sources in Brussels. …
Imprisoned Belarusian activist Maria Kolesnikova has won the Vaclav Havel Prize for Human Rights. Kolesnikova, “one of the three female symbols of the opposition in Belarus”, has shown “true…
Thousands of people were at the funeral of a Belarusian protester on Friday. The man probably died after serious assault by the security services. 31-year-old Roman Bondarenko died on…
The United Kingdom has expelled two Belarusian diplomats in response to the expulsion of two British diplomats by the government of controversial President Lukashenko. The UK will not be…
US Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun met with Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tichanovskaya in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius on Monday. He called her “very impressive”. “I had…
Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to several European leaders on Tuesday to discuss the tense situation in Belarus. A day before an EU summit on the matter, Putin made…