A Little Respite

Belarus freed thousands of prisoners this month as part of a rare amnesty by President Alexander Lukashenko, a release that comes four years after the authoritarian leader launched a brutal crackdown following the 2020 presidential elections, Radio Free Europe reported. Last week, the government announced that...

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Forced Predictability

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko recently claimed that his security forces had captured Ukrainian and Belarusian “saboteurs” in a counterterrorism operation on the country’s border with Ukraine. Other than saying these so-called enemies were transferring explosives to use in Belarus and Russia, reported the Moscow Times,...

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The Autocrat, the Lapdog

Belarussian artist and political dissident Ales Pushkin, 57, recently died in prison from an undisclosed cause. His crime: painting a picture. Prosecutors said, incredibly, that his work glorified Nazism. As the Moscow Times reported, however, the timing of his arrest suggests his true transgression. Police nabbed...

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Fair Weather Friend

Belarusian authorities recently announced that Russia would station nuclear missiles in their country, placing the weapons closer to NATO members. “This will be done despite the noise in Europe and the United States,” Boris Gryzlov, the Russian ambassador to Belarus, told Belarusian state television, according...

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Calling a Spade…

Belarus broke the law when it diverted a Ryanair passenger flight to arrest a dissident Belarusian journalist last year, according to a report by the United Nation’s civil aviation agency, Radio Free Europe reported Tuesday. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) released a fact-finding report on...

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