On September 19, 1991, the historical symbols, the White-Red-White flag and the Pahonia coat of arms, were recognized as state symbols. This decision was made after the collapse of the USSR by the ...
When school started this year for Mikalay in Belarus, the 15-year-old discovered that his teachers and administrators no ...
Belarus, which has created a political and military alliance with Moscow, is being further Russified as schools ditch the ...
A prominent Belarus filmmaker and a critic of Minsk’s authoritarian government has handed a letter to the Serbian presidency ...
"Those pieces came from Tower 1, which was the first one struck by Flight 11, between the 92 nd and 94 th floor," said John Riley, the President of the Freedom Flag Foundation. The foundation ...
The Minsk-based Viasna Human Rights Center listed 1,379 political prisoners in Belarus as of 16 August. According to PEN Belarus, which chronicles the cultural impact of political repression in ...
Some analysts see the prisoner releases as a bid by the veteran leader to start repairing ties with the West and avoid the prospect of Belarus being fully absorbed into Russia. Human rights groups ...
the United Nations special rapporteur for human rights in Belarus. At the same time, "more people want to speak Belarusian, which has become one of the symbols of freedom, but they're afraid to do ...
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — When school started this year for Mikalay in Belarus, the 15-year-old discovered ... with the white-red-white national flag replacing a version of the red hammer and ...