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For years, various musicians have been credited with coining a familiar quip about the inadequacies of music criticism: ...

Marina Adamovich has had no news of her husband -- the imprisoned Belarusian opposition figure Mikola Statkevich.Adamovich, ...

Alexander Lukashenko will soon begin his seventh term as president of Belarus. The official result of the 26 January election gave him 86.8 per cent of the vote, following an election held in a ...

Tens of thousands of Slovaks protested against Prime Minister Robert Fico’s government in more than 40 cities Friday, seeking ...

Ihor Kyzym, Ambassador-at-Large for Belarus of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador of Ukraine to Belarus (2017-2023), believes that the Belarusian democratic movement has been somewhat ...

Rights groups, activists and independent media in Russia and Belarus endured increased government scrutiny, repressive laws and even were shut down and forced to operate from exile abroad.

Tech has been one of the few relatively liberalised sectors in ex-Soviet Belarus's state-dominated economy. It experienced a ...

Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko declared himself the winner in the country's so-called presidential elections, in which zero members of the country's opposition were allowed to take part.

Belarus' 2020 election, which was also called a sham by dissenters, triggered months of unprecedented protests in the country. Lukashenko has been in power since 1994 and has relied on subsidies ...