The day before, Belarus released American citizen Anastassia Nuhfer, who had been arrested in December 2024, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said. Franak Viačorka, senior adviser to Sviatlana ...

Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, Belarus’s autocratic president and Russia’s closest ally, has taken steps to soften his country’s ...

Belarus’ strongman President Aleksandr Lukashenko secured his seventh term with an expected 87.6% of the vote, extending his three decades-long rule by another five years. European leaders are all but ...

An American was among three people released from prison by the government of Belarus, the Trump administration announced ...

President Donald Trump's new Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that a U.S. citizen imprisoned in Belarus under Joe Biden has since been released.

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

It said she was detained during former President Joe Biden's tenure, but did not specify when or why. Rubio's statement came following waves of prisoner releases by Lukashenko, often dubbed ...

After bearing witness to waves of fighting throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, the eastern Congo city of Bukavu may once ...

Lukashenko also voiced his criticisms regarding Trump's behavior toward former President Joe Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris during the inauguration ceremony, saying he "stopped ...

Washington — At least one U.S. citizen who had been detained in Belarus was released Wednesday, the United States' top hostage negotiator said, one of three prisoners being freed.