Nobel peace prize winner Ales Bialiatski among 123 freed from prison in Belarus
Lukashenko pardons prisoners after talks with US special envoy over sanctions
Alexander Lukashenko
Lithuania says it will shoot down Belarus smuggler balloons disrupting air traffic
Lithuania closed Vilnius Airport four times last week after balloons entered its airspace
Belarus releases 52 prisoners after appeal from Trump
US eases some sanctions on Minsk, allowing Belarus’s national airline to service and buy components for its fleet
Belarus opposition leader freed after nearly five years in jail
Syarhei Tsikhanouski was arrested shortly after announcing candidacy in rigged 2020 election won by Alexander Lukashenko
Moscow’s troops advance in Russian border region and eastern Ukraine
Belarus’s veteran leader celebrates victory as EU decries election as ‘affront to democracy’
Russia downs several drones after 11 killed in strikes across eastern Ukraine
Attacks came as Russia continues to stretch out Ukrainian forces in several areas along the front
Green Border review: muscular, urgent dramatisation of the refugee crisis
Agnieszka Holland’s powerful depiction of border-crossing has angered Polish authorities and refugee agencies in equal measure
Belarusians vote in tightly controlled election amid calls for boycott
Rule of Alexander Lukashenko set to continue as balloting dismissed as ‘farce’
Ukraine-Russia war at stalemate says Belarus’ Lukashenko
President of Belarus and ally of Vladimir Putin urges talks between two sides
In Belarus, even the past is criminalised as Lukashenko cracks down on dissent
Anyone who took part in 2020 protests against the government is coming under closer scrutiny as the country’s authoritarian leader aligns himself with Russian president Vladimir Putin
Ukraine pledges to avenge Russian missile attacks on Odesa
Attack smashed roof and several walls of Transfiguration Cathedral in city centre, causing a fire and hurling rubble through interior of Unesco world heritage site
Wagner group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin is in Russia, says Belarus
At least five people killed and 40 injured in a Russian missile strike on Lviv in western Ukraine
Wagner revolt shows Putin’s grip on power weakening
Revolt by mercenary group shows ‘bosses of Russia do not control anything’, says Zelenskiy
Ireland peripheral to EU migration deal but its progress will be closely watched as immigration climbs the agenda
Under the agreement all EU countries must help frontline border states to cope, but they can choose how
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