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Paul Goble: West hasn’t yet figured out what it wants to achieve in Belarus

The West has not yet decided what it wants to achieve in Belarus, and the sanctions it is now imposing will be insufficient to produce either economic …
Paul A. Goble

Melinda Haring: No regrets

“At first, I didn’t think getting rid of (Alexander Lukashenko) would take so long,” Anastasia Kostyugova admits. She is the co-founder of the Women …
Melinda Haring

RFE/RL: Belarus extends detention of Russian girlfriend of arrested blogger

A court in Belarus has extended the pretrial detention of Sofia Sapega, who was arrested along with her boyfriend, opposition blogger Roman …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Agence France-Presse: Polish NGOs denounce pushbacks on Belarus border

Polish campaigners on September 23 accused the government of forcibly sending dozens of migrants back across the Belarus border after detaining them …
Agence France-Presse

Brian Whitmore: Russia fears the Belarusization of Belarus

There is a specter haunting Belarus. It’s not a brutal autocrat who is oppressing his own people, flouting international law, and menacing the …
Brian Whitmore

Grigory Ioffe: Sanctions on Belarus will not bring regime change

With reference to Nasha Niva, the Belarusian service of Radio Liberty reports that Deutsche Bank, the main correspondent bank of Belarusian …
Grigory Ioffe

The Moscow Times: Minsk extends house arrest for girlfriend of dissident blogger

Belarus has extended the house arrest of a Russian student who was detained when Minsk ordered the forced landing of a Ryanair flight to arrest a …
The Moscow Times

RFE/RL: Report highlights Belarus’s ‘repressive’ campaign against internet freedom

Human rights watchdog Freedom House says global internet freedom has declined dramatically in Belarus, where last year’s disputed presidential …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

RFE/RL: UN agencies request access to asylum seekers stranded at EU border with Belarus

Two United Nations agencies have requested immediate access to asylum seekers stranded at Belarus’s border with European Union members Poland and …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Ukrainian MFA demands release of Ukrainian convicted in Belarus

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (MFA) calls the case of Mykhailo Ferents, a Ukrainian convicted in Belarus, politically motivated, and …
Interfax-Ukraine

Belarus jails Ukrainian over post-election protests

Belarus sentenced 33-year-old Ukrainian Mykhailo Ferenets to three years in prison for his supposed role in the post-election protests that engulfed …
Thaisa Semenova

Ferents, Ukrainian convicted in Belarus, plans to file appeal

Mykhailo Ferents, a Ukrainian convicted in Belarus, plans to appeal the court’s decision, Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Liudmyla …
Interfax-Ukraine

Al Jazeera: After 4 found dead, Poland blames Belarus for migrant wave

Poland accused Russia and Belarus of orchestrating a wave of illegal immigration at its land border, a day after four migrants were found dead at its …
Al Jazeera

Associate of former Belarusian presidential candidate Babariko gets 7.5 years in prison

MINSK – Vladimir Dudarev, an associate of former Belarusian presidential candidate Viktor Babariko and former deputy chairman of the Mogilev City …
Interfax-Ukraine

Human Rights Watch: Belarusian authorities should free human rights defenders

Belarusian authorities should immediately free human rights defenders who are behind bars on bogus, politically motivated charges, Human Rights Watch …
Human Rights Watch

RFE/RL: Belarus suspends probe into killing of anti-government protester

MINSK — The Belarusian Prosecutor-General’s Office says it has suspended an investigation into the death of Roman Bandarenko, the anti-government …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

RFE/RL: #FreeViasna campaign launched to free Belarusian human rights defenders

A group of 23 international and Belarusian nongovernmental organizations are launching a campaign to demand the release of seven members of Belarus’s …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Human Rights Watch: Belarus systematically attacks Viasna human rights group

On the first anniversary of the unprecedented crackdown on the Human Rights Center Viasna (“Viasna”) in Belarus, 23 international and Belarusian human …
Human Rights Watch
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