Since Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman, was killed by the Morality Police in fall of 2022, Iran has been enveloped in protests. The movement, called “Woman, Life, Freedom” is in many ways ...

Speaking at today’s meeting of the Presidium of the Belarusian People’s Congress, the President of Belarus, Chairman of the Belarusian ...

Head of State Aleksandr Lukashenko met with representatives of Belarus’ religious denominations“We are very lucky that, in its recent ...

Panasyuk, recently freed after four years in prison, described torture and forced psychiatric treatment in custody ...

Human rights groups and Belarusians say they see no signs that Alexander Lukashenko is preparing to loosen his iron grip on ...

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.

A few decades back, a decreasing number of countries were given taints of autocracies and dictatorship (even though many were under undemocratic monarchies).

Ukraine's key reference point in relations with Belarus remains the Belarusian people, as restoring official ties after the ...

Tech has been one of the few relatively liberalised sectors in ex-Soviet Belarus's state-dominated economy. It experienced a ...

Musk-led cuts to the US foreign aid agency have impacted rights groups, independent media, and election monitoring campaigns in Russia, Belarus and Moldova.

An investigation reveals how Belarusian elites, including Lukashenko’s inner circle, have leveraged Russian fishing quotas to ...