Andrey Kuznechyk, a journalist with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, was one of those released from a Belarusian prison after ...

Top Belarus opposition leader Maria Kolesnikova has been sentenced to 11 years in jail by a court in Minsk. Roman Protasevich, founder of the social media news channel NEXTA, played a crucial role ...

Radio Svaboda and NEXTA, which "play a crucial role in providing essential information and serving as a platform for democratic voices." The European Parliament considers the current regime in Belarus ...

Belarus is also making the news with its highest ... Pratasevich, editor of the NEXTA-Live Telegram channel, was arrested when a commercial airliner in which he was traveling over Belarusian ...

By Ben Aris in Berlin Russia blocked a record 417,000 websites in 2024, according to the independent monitoring group Roskomsvoboda, The Moscow Times reported on January 28. In total, 523,000 online ...

Self-proclaimed President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko ... On Jan. 8, former editor-in-chief of Nexta and former political prisoner Roman Protasevich shared a photo and video on his Telegram ...

When NEXTA organized an event in Minsk on 8 November, a reporter with the German public TV broadcaster ARD and his crew were detained by police for more than two hours to prevent them filming it.

Moscow and Belarusian officials have welcomed the impending dismantling of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) as rights groups, health researchers and independent media voiced ...

Russia and Belarus are to remain frozen out of International Ice Hockey Federation competitions through the 2025-26 season. The IIHF decision on Tuesday covers all world championships and ...

The IIHF announced Tuesday that the Russian and Belarusian national teams will remain barred from competition for at least another year. The International Olympic Committee still has to decide ...

ZURICH — Russia and Belarus are to remain frozen out of International Ice Hockey Federation competitions through the 2025-26 season. The IIHF decision on Tuesday covers all world championships ...