Sign up for our breaking news email to get free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox. Sign up for our free Latest News email Belarus’ Supreme Court on Friday sentenced a prominent journalist working for an influential newspaper serving the country’s sizeable Polish minority to eight years in prison. The decision … Read more
Sign up for our breaking news email to get free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox. Sign up for our free Latest News email Russia has begun the transfer of tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus in the first such deployment on foreign soil since the collapse of the Soviet Union in … Read more
Sign up for our breaking news email to get free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox. Sign up for our free Latest News email Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has skipped a major state celebration, prompting speculation the leader is seriously ill as he has disappeared from the public eye over the … Read more
Sign up for our breaking news email to get free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox. Sign up for our free Latest News email A journalist arrested by Belarus after his Ryanair flight was forcibly diverted was sentenced to eight years in prison on Wednesday in what opposition leaders called a … Read more
Sign up for our breaking news email to get free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox. Sign up for our free Latest News email A court in Belarus convicted a dissident journalist who was arrested after being pulled from a commercial flight that was diverted to the country and sentenced him … Read more
TALLINN, Estonia — A court in Belarus has convicted a dissident journalist who was removed from a commercial airplane that was forced to land in the country. Raman Pratasevich was put on trial on the charges of creating unrest and plotting to usurp power. On Wednesday, the court sentenced him to eight years imprisonment. Pratasevich … Read more
The Russia and Belarus men’s basketball teams have been banned from the second-chance qualification tournaments for the 2024 Olympics, the International Basketball Federation, better known as FIBA, announced Tuesday. Athletes from Russia and Belarus have faced sanctions from a multitude of sports since Russia invaded Ukraine in February last year. As Moscow’s assault on Ukraine … Read more
Related video: Russia arrests US journalist on espionage allegations For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Russia has said it will put tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus near the country’s border with Nato allies in … Read more
Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Russian tactical nuclear weapons will be deployed close to Belarus’ borders with NATO neighbors, the Russian ambassador to Belarus said Sunday amid simmering tensions between Russia and the West over Moscow’s … Read more
For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails The president of Belarus has said that Russian strategic nuclear weapons might be deployed in his country along with part of Russia’s tactical nuclear arsenal. Russian president Vladimir … Read more