NOVAYA GUTA, Belarus — Three years after Russia used Belarus as a launching pad for its brutal invasion of Ukraine, the border here between Belarus and Ukraine is eerily quiet. Gone are the days ...

The impossibility of conveying in ordinary Yiddish the experience of walking through the empty streets of one’s eradicated ...

Content warning: This article includes graphic descriptions of the Russia-Ukraine war.

Three years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Kirill Buketow takes stock and explains why Putin’s internal opponents have ...

Belarusian writers will take part in the Russian project Book Train, Deputy Chairman of the Belarusian Writers' Union Aleksei Cherota said during a press conference to take stock of the 32nd edition ...

Russian actress Anna Meshcheryakova, who has been working at the Janka Kupala National Theatre since 2022, recalled arriving in Minsk without knowing the Belarusian language. She shared her experience ...

“This year the exhibition enjoyed quite a big, lively interest among Minsk residents, among guests of our capital. 78,500 ...

A court in Belarus has sentenced a Japanese citizen to seven years in prison for spying, prosecutors said Monday, in a case that officials in the Russian-allied country have not fully explained.

In the 1990s, fewer than 350 people spoke Inari Sámi. Today, experts say about 500 people speak the near-extinct language, ...

MOSCOW (Kyodo) -- A Japanese man, who was detained in Belarus in July, has been sentenced to seven years in prison for espionage, the Eastern European nation's prosecutors said Monday. Masatoshi ...