Belarus shares language, culture, and history with Russia, yet it remains independent. The reasons lie in centuries of ...

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RFE/RL takes a closer look at what effects easing US sanctions can have on both Minsk and globally, as the world faces ...

Maria Kalesnikava is campaigning for the West to engage with the regime in Belarus that imprisoned her for more than five ...

To understand why Belarus isn’t part of Russia, you have to go back to the medieval world of the Kievan Rus and the later power struggles between Lithuania, Poland, and Muscovy. For centuries, Belarus ...

We discussed many matters. All the international problems. They were interested in my point of view, in how we, Belarusians, ...