Belarus

​Moscow, Mar 19 (EFE).– The United States will lift sanctions imposed on the Belarusian Ministry of Finance and two banks, US envoy John Cole announced Thursday, following the release of 250 political prisoners by Minsk. Cole stated in Minsk, following a meeting with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, that the US...

Moscow (EFE).- The President of the United States Donald Trump, convinced the authoritarian Belarusian leader, Alexandr Lukashenko, to pardon over a hundred prisoners on Saturday, including the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski. In exchange, Trump lifted another package of sanctions against Belarus, considered the last dictatorship in Europe...

Moscow, Mar 6 (EFE).- Belarus on Monday sentenced exiled opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya in absentia to 15 years in prison for conspiracy to seize power in the eastern European nation. Four other exiled opposition leaders were sentenced in the same case, including former culture minister Pavel Latushko, who was handed...

Moscow, Mar 3 (EFE).- Belarus on Friday sentenced human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski to 10 years in prison on charges of smuggling money and funding activities that subverted public order. Bialiatski is the founder of the Eastern European nation’s most prominent human rights group Viasna...