Authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko derides his native language, saying “nothing great can be expressed in Belarusian.” ...

More than a half-million Belarusians have fled their country since 2020 as the authoritarian government cracked down its ...

But all that changed in 1994, after Alexander Lukashenko, a former Soviet collective ... “It is obvious that our children are being deliberately deprived of their native language, history ...

As hard-line President Alexander Lukashenko seeks his seventh term ... Of particular concern are children born abroad to parents who cannot return to Belarus to get documents confirming their ...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has pardoned 30 people convicted for antigovernment protests, four years after huge demonstrations that prompted a massive crackdown on dissent and spurred a ...

The Russification of Belarus has reached a new level. Schools are asked to abandon the teaching of the Belarusian language in ...

(Reuters) -Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Wednesday pardoned ... It did not name them but said most were parents of young children and minors. Human rights group Viasna said ...