A 72-year-old woman in Belarus has racked up more than $16,000 in fines for taking part in decades of demonstrations and protests, many alone and holding the banned Belarusian first republic flag.

U.S. special envoy Keith Kellogg met Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk, the highest-profile visit of a U.S.

The protesters dress in white and red – the colors of the opposition flag – and bring flowers and balloons. Protests have been held in more than 30 cities.

A prominent Belarusian opposition leader, Sergei Tikhanovsky, was unexpectedly released from prison after almost five years ...

Belarusian authorities released by presidential pardon 14 prisoners, all jailed as a result of politically motivated ...

Belarus’s exiled opposition leader wants to “remind” Americans of something important. ... [The colors of the opposition flag]. Or if you donate 20 euros to the Ukrainian army, ...

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the challenger who undoubtedly won the election that Mr Lukashenko stole in 2020, has kept the flag of opposition flying from exile in Lithuania; but radicals want more.

Nina Bahinskaya, 73, poses for a photo holding a flag that became the symbole of the opposition at an entrance of her apartment building in Minsk, Belarus, on Sept. 10, 2020.

In the 90-minute video broadcast Thursday night, Raman Pratasevich repented for his opposition activities and said he respects Belarus’ President Alexander Lukashenko as “a man with balls of ...

An estimated 35,000 people were detained in the crackdown, many of them beaten by police, and Belarus' most prominent opposition figures either fled the country or were imprisoned — including ...