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Dozens of demonstrators, including some topless female activists, were detained Monday for denouncing Belarus' authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko on the first anniversary of his re-election.
Belarus' leading human rights activist was convicted of tax evasion and sentenced to 4.5 years in prison on Thursday at a trial condemned by U.S. and European Union officials as politically motivated.
A prominent Belarusian opposition activist went on trial Wednesday in this former Soviet republic after authorities accused him of tax evasion.
A Russian newspaper journalist working on a report about the opposition in Belarus said Wednesday he was deported overnight from the authoritarian ex-Soviet nation by the secret police.
The Belarusian currency plummented in value Wednesday after the government allowed a limited free float in a bid to ease the country's spiraling financial crisis. Residents desperately tried to buy other currencies but few were to be found.
Police in Belarus attacked peaceful protesters Wednesday, beating and detaining hundreds in the latest series of rallies calling for the ouster of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, witnesses and a human rights group said.
A journalist for one of Poland's leading newspapers has been convicted of libel for insulting Belarus' authoritarian president, but freed after being handed a suspended sentence.
Police used tear gas to break up an anti-government protest in Belarus and forcefully detained dozens of demonstrators Sunday in the capital.
Belarus has asked the International Monetary Fund for a loan of up to $8 billion to stabilize its plummeting economy, the government said Wednesday as it struggles to manage the country's most severe financial crisis since the Soviet collapse.
The autocratic president of Belarus on Friday threatened to ban some foreign media organizations from working in the country after what he described as their alarmist coverage of the deepening financial crisis.
Russia's finance minister is dangling a $3 billion loan in front of Belarus, saying Thursday that the cash hinges on the crisis-hit neighbor selling off certain national assets.
A court in Belarus on Monday gave the wife of a former presidential candidate a two-year suspended prison sentence for taking part in an antigovernment rally. Two days earlier, her husband had been sentenced to five years.
The exchange rate of the national currency of cash-strapped Belarus on Wednesday plunged by 30 percent after the government completed its devaluation, a move that will eat into people's salaries and cause price hikes in this authoritarian former Soviet republic.
Cash-strapped Belarus announced Tuesday that it would allow its beleaguered national currency to float, effectively permitting its devaluation in a bid to ease a spiraling currency crisis.
A former Belarusian presidential candidate said Monday he was beaten, stripped naked and hung by his hands while in the custody of secret police.
The authoritarian president of Belarus accused neighboring Poland on Thursday of plotting to overthrow him in order to recarve the border between the two countries.
In the aftermath of Belarus' presidential election, a 3-year-old boy is at the heart of a battle with a secret service that still calls itself the KGB.
The Belarusian parliament on Tuesday decided to set the ex-Soviet nation's next presidential election for December, marking the start of a campaign that neighboring Russia will likely try to influence.
Belarus on Thursday offered Russia total control of its gas pipeline network in exchange for cheap gas.
The U.S. air base near Kyrgyzstan's capital was fully back in action Thursday providing critical support to the NATO campaign in Afghanistan, with planes taking off and landing throughout the day.
Russia has cast a long shadow in Central Asia, and it's shaping up as a big winner after the deadly uprising in Kyrgyzstan, the only nation in the world where both the U.S. and Russia have military bases.
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych makes his first foreign trip to Brussels on Monday, but the gesture of goodwill toward Europe may ring hollow days later when he goes to strike concrete deals with the Kremlin.
A spying scandal between Ukraine and Russia threatens to heighten tensions between the countries as Ukraine's holds a presidential runoff election Sunday between a Russian-leaning candidate and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko once commanded such respect that hundreds of thousands of protesters poured into the streets of Kiev when he lost a fraudulent election.
Outgoing Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said Wednesday he will not support either candidate in the country's presidential runoff, saying they both are alienated from democratic principles.
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