Belarusians began voting Sunday, with President Alexander Lukashenko expected to cruise to victory unchallenged for a seventh term, prolonging his three-decade authoritarian rule. Polls opened at ...

Rights groups, activists and independent media in Russia and Belarus endured increased government scrutiny, repressive laws and even were shut down and forced to operate from exile abroad.

Poland is the largest haven for Belarusian exiles, and the country’s pre-1989 history of the anti-communist mobilization resonates well with those struggling for democracy now. Almost five years after ...

which is now used in Belarus along with the white-red-white flag. The Polish eagle wears a crown: it symbolises the sovereignty and unity of the state. After Poland regained independence in 1918, the ...

The nation's red flag, with a white sun in the top left corner surrounded ... The country's flag joins Russia and Belarus in ...

With many of his political opponents either jailed or exiled abroad, Alexander Lukashenko, dubbed “Europe’s last dictator,” is all but certain to add a seventh term.

Previously, the tournament's neutral flag was white, but since 2024 it has been blue in colour. 'Players from Russia and Belarus are only able to compete in international tennis events as ...

In 2023, it was a white space. Players from Russia and Belarus have ‘blue flags’ instead of the flag of their country Picture: Nine Sabalenka, a Belarusian who won the Australian Open women ...

the 'neutral flag' was a white colour. However, because of a new scoreboard design, the flag has been a blue colour since 2024. "Players from Russia and Belarus are only able to compete in ...

The Belarus Initiative is run in partnership with the Center for New Ideas and led by Ryhor Astapenia. Image — Belarusians hold a giant former white-red-white flag of Belarus used in opposition to the ...

The country's economy is largely state-planned and Lukashenko scrapped Belarus's white-red-white flag in the 1990s -- which ...