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 ...

This wasn’t a clichéd vox pop with a disaffected heartland voter, but rather a comment made by Alexander Lukashenko, who was visiting the plant as he himself sought a seventh term as president of ...

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.

Drones operated by the Security Service of Ukraine and the Special Operations Forces, in cooperation with other elements of the Ukrainian Defense Forces, carried out precision strikes on strategic ...

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 ...

A close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, he allowed Moscow to use Belarus as a launchpad for its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 - and paid the price in the form of ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A Polish border guard looks east into Belarus at the crossing point Połowce-Pieszczatka in Polowce, Poland ...

Vladimir Putin didn’t need to launch an invasion to put a stranglehold on Belarus. From using the country as a launchpad for his full-scale invasion of Ukraine to stashing Russian nuclear weapons on ...

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Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. FILE – Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski, head of the Viasna human rights group, sits in a ...

The elder Lukashenko has ruled the country for 30 years, and an early presidential election is scheduled to be held in Belarus on January 26. Nikolai Lukashenko first appeared in public in 2008 at ...

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 ...