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.

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.

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

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, ...

Belarus has freed Sergey Tikhanovsky, a key dissident figure and the husband of exiled opposition leader Svetlana ...

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.

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 ...

Belarus' opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, who in 2020 left the country under pressure from the authorities, said the raids and the seizures are "the authorities’ revenge on ...

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.

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko attends the Victory Day military parade at Red Square in central Moscow, Russia, on May 9, 2023. Lukashenko's bandaged hand sparked rumors about his health.