Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko is forging closer ties with Russia. Isolated by the West, Lukashenko has agreed to a road map for closer integration that stops short of political union ...

Russia, which sees the ex-Soviet republic of 9.5 million as a strategically-important buffer to its west, has helped keep Lukashenko in power with loans and political backing.

But maps can speak to all dimensions—political, military, ... The 10 maps below show Russia’s difficult position since the Soviet Union collapsed and explain Putin’s long ... Belarus and ...

Russia has said its new military drill is not aimed at any particular state, but the planned map shows the hypothetical enemy is in Poland, Latvia and Lithuania.

Belarus, the authoritarian state lying to the north of Ukraine, appears to be playing an increasingly prominent supporting role in Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Russia’s western neighbour ...

The map, which divided ... Today there are more than 1,000 political prisoners in the country’s poorly run prisons and around ... Ikea suspends activities in Russia and Belarus due to war with ...

Natalya Chernyshova receives funding from the British Academy. The political crisis that has gripped Belarus for the past 18 months has seen president Aliaksandr Lukashenka (the preferred ...

The Polish military, a member of the U.S.-led NATO military alliance, has told Newsweek it saw nearby border drills being held by neighboring Russia and Belarus as part of the latter's effort to ...

Russia and Belarus have launched massive joint military drills near NATO’s borders as Moscow and Minsk vowed to deepen their military ties amid persistent tensions with the West. The Zapad-2021 ...

Most notably, the new emblem shows a map of Western Europe and the Atlantic Ocean, a politically pointed change from the former emblem, which showed Russia and Eurasia.

MOSCOW — Besieged by protesters at home, the embattled strongman leader of Belarus, Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, traveled to Russia on Monday seeking help from President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia ...