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    • Thursday, 10 August, 2023
      Poland
      Poland to station 10,000 troops on Belarus border

      Warsaw’s announcement comes as government prepares for re-election campaign ahead of October vote

      Armed Polish soldiers standing guard near a village in the Suwalki Gap, which separates Belarus from the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad
    • Tuesday, 8 August, 2023
      Belarus military exercises raise tensions in Poland and Lithuania

      Warsaw deploys more soldiers to border after Minsk begins drills to test lessons of Ukraine war

      Belarusian soldiers and Wagner fighters take part in a military drill near Belarus’s border with Poland
    • Wednesday, 19 July, 2023
      Wagner Group
      Wagner has relocated to Belarus ‘for some time’, Prigozhin says

      Video purporting to be filmed in Belarus suggests forces have moved after failed mutiny in Russia

      Fighters from the Wagner group conduct training exercises for soldiers in Belarus
    • Wednesday, 19 July, 2023
      EU foreign policy
      How the EU agreed sanctions on Belarus to unlock a migration deal Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: Can mining really be climate-friendly?

      Alexander Lukashenko
    • Friday, 14 July, 2023
      Russian insurrection
      Wagner fighters start training soldiers in Belarus

      Russian paramilitaries comply with terms of truce that ended their insurrection, according to Belarusian officials

      Wagner fighters training Belarusian soldiers
    • Thursday, 6 July, 2023
      Yevgeny Prigozhin
      Prigozhin has been in Russia, says Lukashenko

      President of Belarus claims Wagner’s leader has been moving freely in Russia despite deal to relocate with his fighters

      Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin
    • Monday, 3 July, 2023
      Russian insurrection
      Prigozhin appeals for public support as Wagner continues recruiting

      Paramilitary group still signing contracts with fighters for Ukrainian front despite terms of truce with the Kremlin

    • Sunday, 2 July, 2023
      The Big Read
      Belarus: an ever growing dependency on Russia

      Alexander Lukashenko claims he can be loyal to Moscow while staying independent. But sanctions have left the country even more reliant on Russia’s economy

      Alexander Lukashenko, Vladimir Putin and an employee of Belshina tyre company in Belarus, set against the colours of the flag
    • Friday, 30 June, 2023
      Wagner Group
      Poland fears Wagner in Belarus could spark migration crisis

      National security chief warns paramilitaries may try to destabilise central and eastern Europe

    • Friday, 30 June, 2023
      Russian insurrection
      Alexander Lukashenko: from Putin’s puppet to Prigozhin’s saviour

      Belarus strongman agrees to host ‘impulsive’ Russian warlord after failed mutiny

      Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko with Russia’s president Vladimir Putin
    • Monday, 26 June, 2023
      Lukashenko deal increases Russian ‘threat’ to European neighbours

      Opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya says truce brokered by Minsk brings more regional security risks

      Alexander Lukashenko, left, and Vladimir Putin
    • Friday, 16 June, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Russia has sent nuclear warheads to Belarus, says Putin

      Russia has not deployed nuclear weapons outside its borders since the collapse of the Soviet Union

      Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a session of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum
    • Thursday, 8 June, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      UK imposes new sanctions on Belarus for its role in Ukraine war

      London bans imports of Belarusian gold, cement, wood and rubber, and restricts access to its financial markets

      Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko with Russian president Vladimir Putin in Moscow in April
    • Monday, 15 May, 2023
      Alexander Lukashenko
      Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko re-emerges after health scare

      President appears with bandaged arm after struggling in Russia last week

      Alexander Lukashenko at Belarus’s air force central command
    • Saturday, 13 May, 2023
      Europe Express
      Belarus caught in the crossfire Premium content

      Achieving democracy and genuine national independence may depend on the outcome of the war in Ukraine

    • Friday, 31 March, 2023
      Tennis
      Russian tennis players allowed back to compete at Wimbledon

      UK sport’s governing body reverses ban imposed last year following invasion of Ukraine

      Russian tennis star Daniil Medvedev plays a shot at Wimbledon in July 2021
    • Sunday, 26 March, 2023
      Russian politics
      Putin plans to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus

      Russian president denies the move would violate Moscow’s non-proliferation obligations

      Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, center, and general director at Tactical Missiles Corporation Boris Obnosov, left, at tactical missiles production facility outside Moscow,
    • Tuesday, 17 January, 2023
      Interview
      Belarus opposition leader warns of ‘massive disobedience’ if Lukashenko mobilises for Ukraine war

      Dictator is more vulnerable than he looks, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya tells FT in Davos

    • Thursday, 13 October, 2022
      News in-depthWar in Ukraine
      Military briefing: Ukraine frets about a new Belarus front

      Threat of attack from north could draw troops away from Kyiv’s counteroffensives

      Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko pictured during Russia-Belarus military drills in February
    • Friday, 7 October, 2022
      Nobel prizes
      Belarus, Russia and Ukraine rights activists awarded Nobel Peace prize

      Laureates praised for ‘outstanding effort to document war crimes, human right abuses and the abuse of power’

      Belarusian human rights activist Ales Bialiatski alongside logos for the Ukraine Center for Civil Liberties and the Russian rights group Memorial
    • Sunday, 7 August, 2022
      Tony Barber
      The thirst for freedom in Belarus is unquenchable

      Two years after pro-democracy protests swept the nation, opponents of the Lukashenko regime can take heart from Polish history

    • Friday, 5 August, 2022
      Frederick Studemann
      Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya’s ‘million small acts of courage’

      The Belarusian exile’s visit to a memorial to Nazism’s victims was a powerful reminder of the cost of resisting oppression

      A woman is speaking on an outdoor stage. In front of her are umbrellas held by the people in the crowd listening to her
    • Friday, 29 July, 2022
      Poland
      Poland battles ‘forgotten’ refugee crisis with Belarus border fence

      Tens of thousands of people, mainly from the Middle East, have tried to enter the country since last summer

      Part of the new fence on the Polish-Belarusian border
    • Saturday, 25 June, 2022
      War in Ukraine
      Russia fires volley of missile strikes at targets across Ukraine

      Ukrainian defence intelligence chief says attacks conducted from Belarus in bid to pull Minsk into war

    • Wednesday, 1 June, 2022
      News in-depthCommodities
      Ukraine war sparks rush for potash as global food fears grow

      Producers of crucial crop fertiliser look to boost output after sanctions hit supply from Russia and Belarus

      Potash railway cars at a facility in Saskatchewan in Canada
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