Belarus News

Belarus and the United States on Friday traded accusations over an American lawyer jailed for more than three months in a KGB prison.

Belarus remains a priority in Russia's foreign policy, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said at a meeting in Moscow with his Belarusian counterpart Sergei Sidorsky ahead of a session of the council of ministers of ...

Prime ministers Vladimir Putin and Sergei Sidorsky are holding In Moscow a meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Russia-Belarus Union State, the press service of the Russian cabinet reports.

Dozens of Belarusian news Web sites on Wednesday filled their pages with grim black banners to protest a new media law that will severely restrict the last source of independent information in the repressive ...

Mexico is interested in starting up the assembly of Belarusian tractors in its territory, Belarussian Economy Minister Nikolai Zaichenko and Ambassador of Mexico to Belarus Alfredo Perez Bravo said in Minsk, ...

MINSK -- Belarussian lawmakers have given final approval to a crackdown on Internet journalism, one of the last remaining independent sources of information in the country.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev condemned on Sunday what he described as attempts to rewrite wartime history - an attack the Kremlin said was aimed at Ukraine and the three Baltic states.

Most Belarusian opposition politicians plan to run personally or indirectly in the parliamentary elections set by presidential decree for September 28.

MOSCOW. June 23. KAZINFORM Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Belarussian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko has pledged to enhance bilateral relations, while the two post-Soviet countries are striving for ...

Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko found it symbolic that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev made his first visit to Belarus to Brest.

Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev, speaking Sunday in the west Belarusian city of Brest, urged a greater union between Russian and Belarus.

Internationally isolated Belarus on Sunday received unexpected support from the Vatican, when visiting Cardinal Tarciso Bertone criticized US-imposed economic sanctions against the former Soviet republic.

New hope is dawning for Belarussian women caught up in forced prostitution, and Switzerland can take some of the credit.

Belarus' authoritarian president invited Pope Benedict XVI to the mostly Orthodox former Soviet republic, the presidential press service said in a statement Friday.

Belarussian Foreign Minister Sergei Martynov shakes hands with Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone in Minsk, yesterday.

A Defence Ministry official in Belarus says the remains of 180 Napoleonic soldiers who died in a major battle against the Russian army have been found in the former Soviet republic.

MINSK, Belarus, JUNE 18, 2008 .- Benedict XVI's secretary of state arrived today in Belarus for an official visit to the former Soviet country.

Thirty-three children, one family, and five translators from Belarus arrived at the Jackson International Airport Friday. For some this is their first visit to the United States; others are returning to what they call their second families in Mississippi..

Belarus seems to have a knack for breaking dubious records.

A political protest in Minsk in 2006 The government-controlled Belarusian Television showed a three-part documentary last week titled "Network," in which it accused U.S. pro-democracy funds of financing the ...