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Belarus

February 2024

  • An image of ‘Ewan Liam Torres’ likely to have been generated by AI.

    Revealed: the names linked to ClothOff, the deepfake pornography app

  • Krystsina Tsimanouskaya holding up a shirt saying: ‘I just want to run’

    Coach who tried to force Olympic sprinter back to Belarus lands five-year ban

  • Alexander Lukashenko speaks to a group of journalists

    Belarus votes in tightly controlled elections opposition have called a ‘farce’

  • Maria Kolesnikova gestures during a rally in Minsk, Belarus, on 30 August 2020.

    Belarusian flautist’s fate unknown as hundreds of activists remain in prison

  • ‘A gift to Moscow’: dismay as NYPD takes part in UAE Swat games with Chechnya and Belarus

  • Australian arts in focus
    The Jewish boy who became a Nazi mascot: the extraordinary story of Alex Kurzem

  • Dissident rock band Bi-2 leave Thailand after Russia deportation fears

January 2024

  • Alexander Lukashenko, 69, has ruled Belarus for almost 30 years. The country’s next presidential election is due to take place in 2025.

    Belarusian president signs law granting him lifelong immunity from prosecution

  • People on the move in Democratic Republic of Congo, where conflict has brought reports of widespread human rights abuses, including murder, rape, looting and the burning of homes.

    Rights and freedom
    The forgotten human rights stories of 2023 – in pictures

November 2023

  • The former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev in a black suit and tie

    EU plans fresh Russia sanctions including against son of Dmitry Medvedev

    Proposals aimed at choking off commercial revenues include total ban on sale of Russian rough diamonds

October 2023

  • Tor Band album cover – monochrome image of two sombre-looking band members wearing black T-shirts and standing in front of large crowd waving fists

    Belarus musicians jailed for up to nine years amid protest crackdown

    Opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya condemns the sentencing of Tor Band’s three members
  • A protester holds a placard with a screaming face on the traditional Belarusian flag, symbol of the opposition, as Belarusians living in Poland and Poles demand freedom for Belarus opposition activist Raman Pratasevich in 2021

    Rights and freedom
    A fake Ryanair hijack – and the fear that has stalked Belarus’s people ever since

    When a passenger plane was forced to land in Minsk in 2021, one man screamed: ‘They’ll kill me’. Many of his countrymen and women now realise they are also not safe, even in exile
  • Members of a group of migrants in Bialowieza, Poland, in May at the border with Belarus

    Beatings, dog bites, and barbed wire: life and death on the Poland-Belarus border

    Activists helping people in forested grey zone say dehumanisation of migrants is increasing as Polish election draws nearer

September 2023

  • Kira and another children with a suitcase

    Children arrive in Belarus after being illegally removed from Ukraine

  • Alexander Lukashenko shakes hands with Vladimir Putin during a meeting in Sochi, Russia.

    Belarus leader proposes three-way partnership with Russia and North Korea

  • Green Border, directed by Agnieszka Holland, is based on the true story of refugees crossing the Belarus-Poland border in 2021.

    Refugee film Green Border by Agnieszka Holland attacked by Polish government

  • Katya Adler at a memorial to Soviet soldiers in Latvia

    TV review
    Living Next Door to Putin review – the brutal truth of being on Russia’s doorstep

  • Khan’s Flesh review – a portrait of the quiet majesty of the mundane

  • Green Border review – gripping story of refugees’ fight for survival in the forest

  • Nobel Foundation reverses decision to invite Russian ambassador to awards

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