Belarus has released 14 prisoners in a deal reached with the cooperation of the Lithuanian government. Among them were Ihar Karnei, a former RFE/RL journalist who was arrested in 2023, and opposition ...

Strong reporting last week by AP’s Belarus reporter Yuras Karmanau shed light on a little-told element of the historic East-West prisoner exchange — the plight of the Belarusian political prisoners.

MINSK, 26 January (BelTA) – Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko hosted a press conference for domestic and foreign mass media on 26 January. Lukashenko slams EU statements about Belarus election as ...