After years of the U.S. trying to isolate Russia’s closest ally, a meeting with Belarus’s president points to better ...

The UN Group of Independent Experts on the Human Rights Situation in Belarus reported on Friday that the Belarusian government committed widespread human rights violations, including crimes against ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Belarus has released three people, including an American and a journalist, who had been detained for more ...

Katsiaryna Snytsina won a European basketball title last year. Now her acclaimed play is shining a light on the tyranny in ...

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 ...

Early results in Ecuador's presidential race are tight and indicate a runoff election is likely between conservative ...

Over thirty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the three Baltic nations of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia will ...

CLUJ-NAPOCA, ROMANIA (AP) _ Results Saturday from Transylvania Open at Arenele BNR (seedings in parentheses): Anastasia Potapova (1), Russia, def. Aliaksandra Sasnovich, Belarus, 6-3, 7-5. Lucia ...

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.

She talks about other women who stayed there, in Zarechcha - about Volha Mayorava, Viktoryia Kulsha, Alena Hnauk. About the ...