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Belarus Protests Grow As Russia Warns Germany, France Not To Interfere

4:27pm August 18, 2020

by Scott Neuman

The government of President Alexander Lukashenko is coming under increasing pressure as demonstrations sparked by a disputed election show signs of expanding.

Striking workers participate in anti-government protests on Monday in Minsk, Belarus.

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Belarus Factory Workers Walk Out, Joining Mass Protests Calling For President To Quit

1:47pm August 17, 2020

by Scott Neuman

More than a week of protests across the country are aimed at getting President Alexander Lukashenko to step down after 26 years in power. Lukashenko has vowed never to quit.

Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, candidate for Belarus' presidential election, smiles as she speaks to people during a meeting in her support in Brest, Belarus, on Aug. 2.

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Belarus' Opposition Leaders Reemerge After Post-Election Crackdown

5:24pm August 14, 2020

by Lucian Kim

The country's scattered opposition is regaining its footing after President Alexander Lukashenko unleashed his security forces on protesters during four nights of unprecedented violence.

Women hold flowers Thursday in support of demonstrators who were injured or detained during protests critical of election results in Belarus.

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Women In Belarus Take To The Streets To Protest Post-Election Crackdown

2:32pm August 13, 2020

Security forces have clashed with demonstrators since Sunday's election, which is widely viewed as fraudulent. Nearly 7,000 have been arrested. And the opposition candidate fled the country.

Opposition candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya speaks at a news conference Monday in Minsk, Belarus, after the Belarusian presidential election.

Politics & Government

Belarus Elections End With Landslide Winner — And Massive Protests

6:24pm August 10, 2020

by Lucian Kim

Five-term incumbent Alexander Lukashenko is declared the winner. Opposition candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya rejects the results.

Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, presidential candidate in Belarus elections 2020, makes the symbol of victory in a rally in Minsk.

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A 37-Year-Old Opposition Candidate Challenges The Longtime Leader Of Belarus

6:00pm July 31, 2020

by Lucian Kim

"I'm tired of being silent. I'm tired of being afraid," said opposition presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who entered the race after her blogger husband was jailed.

World War II veterans Pyotr Vorobyev (left), 90, and Pavel Yeroshenko, 94, attend a performance in Minsk by the 120th Rogachev Guards Mechanized Brigade of the Belarusian Armed Forces ahead of the 75th anniversary of the victory in World War II. Belarus i

In Belarus, World War II Victory Parade Will Go On Despite Rise In COVID-19 Cases

1:10pm May 08, 2020

by Charles Maynes

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has dismissed the pandemic as mass "psychosis" — a disease easily cured with a bit of vodka, a hot sauna or spending time playing hockey or doing farm work.

Volunteers bury the remains of more than 1,000 Holocaust victims at a cemetery just outside Brest, Belarus, on Wednesday.

More Than 1,000 Holocaust Victims Are Buried In Belarus After Mass Grave Discovered

5:44pm May 22, 2019

by Sasha Ingber

The remains emerged at a construction site in January. "I think it's very late, but better late than never," said Marcel Drimer, an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor.

On Monday, Belorussian army vehicles prepare for war games at an undisclosed location in Belarus.

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NATO Nervous As Russia, Belarus Team Up For Cold-War-Style War Games

2:37pm September 14, 2017

by Scott Neuman

Zapad 2017 involves thousands of Russian and Belorussian troops, tanks and planes, making neighboring Ukraine and the NATO Baltic states jittery.

Shimon Peres, Israel's foreign minister at the time, visits his home village — once part of Poland, now in Belarus — in 1992. He was looking for his boyhood home, but it had long since been torn down. Like many of Israel's founding fathers, he traced

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The Day Shimon Peres Returned To His Boyhood Village

11:23pm September 28, 2016

by Joanne Levine

Like many founding fathers of Israel, he was born in Eastern Europe. After the Soviet Union collapsed, he returned in 1992 searching for his old family home.