Russia will deploy tactical nuclear weapons in neighboring Belarus, Russian President Vladimir Putin said, noting that for the first time since the mid-1990s, Moscow will deploy such weapons outside the country. Reuters writes about it. Putin made this statement at a time of rising tensions...
The General Prosecutor's Office of Belarus has set up a working group to prepare a draft law on the procedure for criminal proceedings against deceased persons involved in war crimes. This group should develop "a mechanism for bringing to justice those Nazi criminals and their accomplices who ...
Belarusian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski was sentenced on March 3 by a court in Minsk (Belarus) to 10 years in a maximum security colony. He was found “guilty of smuggling” and “repeated violation of the order of organizing or holding mass events.” CNN writes about this. Leader of the Belarusian...
November 30 in Buffalo Grove, Illinois, police found the bodies of a family of 5 in their home. As it turned out, they were immigrants from Belarus, and problems in the family had been brewing for a very long time. The circumstances of the incident are still under investigation, writes the Chicago Suntimes. Police found dead...
In Ukraine, a wall is being built on the border with Belarus. This is almost the entire northern border of the country, with a length of 1 km. Construction has already begun. Ukrayinska Pravda writes about this. A wall is being built on the northern border of Ukraine, and the regions bordering Russia are also being strengthened with fortifications. About…
Self-proclaimed President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko recently announced the creation of a joint Russian-Belarusian military grouping on the territory of his country. After that, there were many rumors that the Russian command was going to repeat the attack on Ukraine from the north. What could be the scenarios for the development of events, said the publication Meduza. Ukrainian authorities...
The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the founder of the Belarusian human rights organization Vesna, Ales Byalyatsky, the Russian human rights center Memorial, and the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties. The BBC writes more about this. Byalyatsky founded the Viasna Human Rights Center in 1996. In 2011, he was convicted of...
Alyaksandr Lukashenka's regime is developing a legislative act providing for the deprivation of citizenship of political opponents who have emigrated, Voice of America reports. This was stated on September 6 by the Minister of Internal Affairs of Belarus Ivan Kubrakov. Tens of thousands of Belarusians fled the country, fearing prosecution amid large-scale repression, during…
The US Department of Commerce has confirmed that the agency has targeted seven planes of the Belarusian airline Belavia for violating US export controls. More about this was told by the publication Simple Flying. All the planes that have been sanctioned are of the Boeing 737 type. Belarus, already in…
On February 27, a referendum on amendments to the Constitution will be held in Belarus. Self-proclaimed President Alexander Lukashenko calls the upcoming changes an evolutionary path of the country's development, while the opposition calls it a fiction and another attempt to usurp power. The BBC edition told what changes are in question. In January…