A Quick, Quiet Trip to Belarus Signals a Turn in U.S. Policy
After years of the U.S. trying to isolate Russia’s closest ally, a meeting with Belarus’s president points to better ...
Belarus Frees an American and 2 Others as It Tries to Thaw Relations
Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, Belarus’s autocratic president and Russia’s closest ally, has taken steps to soften his country’s ...
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Poland wants the EU focused on security. Its border with Belarus highlights the challenges
It’s needed, the government in Warsaw says, because Russia and Belarus are waging a particular kind of hybrid warfare: helping groups of migrants — mostly from Africa or the Middle East — to break ...
At the Poland-Belarus border, security and migration merge into one
Poland has reframed the debate on migration through the lenses of national security, forcing the EU to change its tune.View on euronews ...
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In Belarus, a sham election in a locked country
Pavel Latushko, culture minister between 2009 and 2012 and former Belarusian ambassador to Poland, at a protest against repression in Belarus, Warsaw, in August 2023. ATTILA HUSEJNOW/SOPA IMAGES ...
Lukashenko heads for massive win in Belarus election scorned by the West
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Ahead of election, media group accuses Belarus of crimes against humanity
“The Belarusian information space is tightly controlled by the government,” Natalia Belikova, the head of international cooperation at Press Club Belarus, told VOA from Warsaw. Repression ...
Russia and Belarus cheer dismantling of USAID as rights groups voice concerns
Musk-led cuts to the US foreign aid agency have impacted rights groups, independent media, and election monitoring campaigns in Russia, Belarus and Moldova.
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Belarus votes in election poised to extend decades-long rule of Alexander Lukashenko
When Alexander Lukashenko emerged victorious from Belarus's presidential election in 2020, protesters came out on the streets to accuse him of election fraud and call for his resignation. But as ...
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Poland fortifies EU border with Belarus amid security push
Border guards peered into Belarus. It’s needed, the government in Warsaw says, because Russia and Belarus are waging a particular kind of hybrid warfare: helping groups of migrants - mostly from ...
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A visit to Poland’s last line of defence
Those who would still try and force their way in are sent back to Belarus, a practice Warsaw defends as in line with its legal framework. “We have tightened our visa policy, and above all ...
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Polish man gets life sentence for raping and killing a woman who had fled Belarus
A Polish court on Friday convicted a man of raping, robbing and killing a Belarussian woman in Warsaw and handed him a life sentence in prison with a requirement for therapy. The Regional Court in ...