Alexander Lukashenko

A student who was seized from a Ryanair flight forced to land in Belarus was sentenced to six years in jail on Friday, accused of fomenting unrest in (...)

When Vladimir Putin’s troops stormed Ukraine two months ago, Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich was quick to lend her voice to urgent appeals for a(...)

Wimbledon has been warned it could face legal action from the Belarusian Tennis Federation (BTF) after it accused the All England Club of acting illeg(...)

When Dublin MEP Clare Daly stood up to denounce sanctions on Russia last week in the European Parliament and say that the EU’s response makes her “abs(...)

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy has voiced concerns that Russian forces are preparing “a new stage of terror” that could involve the use of ch(...)

It’s a week in which the country celebrates its national holiday, but it’s hard to feel much joy. On Tuesday, bulletins carry the dreadful news about (...)

Anywhere else in the world, it would be a perfectly normal question for a couple who intend to marry. “What are your plans?” I ask Ales Plotka, a citi(...)

Protesters against the Russian war in Ukraine have called for a no fly zone to be enforced by countries not affiliated to Nato. A crowd of about 2,00(...)

Ireland is to back an international agreement to exclude Russian and Belarusian teams and athletes from competition in a bid to further isolate them i(...)

Russian-backed separatists invaded the Russian-speaking region of Donbas in 2014, sparking a military conflict with the then-small Ukrainian armed for(...)