Independent UN rights experts expressed alarm Thursday about the use of forced psychiatric treatment to punish political dissenters in Belarus. The experts have stated that 33 people have been ...

It is time to strip ODIHR of its monopoly to monitor elections, and this de-monopolization process is already underway, ...

The Belarusian leader mocks critics who derided him as 'Europe's last dictator,' saying his country has more democracy 'than those who cast themselves as its models.' ...

Dozens of journalists in Belarus have been imprisoned in recent years under a crackdown by authoritarian President Alexander ...

The election was widely condemned as fraudulent ... and violent crackdowns that left several people dead. RFE/RL's Belarus Service is one of the leading providers of news and analysis to ...

Igor Karpenko, the Chairman of Belarus’ Central Election Commission (CEC), has met with the Vitebsk Region ideological activists to sum ...

During the recent Presidential campaign in Belarus, destructive forces had no chance to interfere in the process – as stated by Natalya ...

Belarusian Prime Minister Aleksandr Turchinpresided over a meeting of the Presidium of the Council of Ministers to consider ...

Journalists at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty who have been imprisoned for their work are dismayed by the effort to close ...

You may think I’m crazy for comparing what the Lukashenko administration is doing in Belarus with what the Trump administration is doing in the United States. Still, these actions are comparable in ...

Among those being sanctioned is the Belarus Central Election Commission, the EU Council said. Sign up here. In January, Belarusian leader and Russian ally Alexander Lukashenko extended his 31-year ...

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko was sworn in Tuesday to a seventh term, and he mocked those who derided him as “Europe’s last dictator” by ...