TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Authorities in Belarus opened a criminal case against a 78-year-old activist who became the face of the country’s pro-democracy protests in 2020, a rights organization said ...

A Finnish businessman wanted in connection with one of the largest corruption scandals in Finland’s history has been quietly ...

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarus' authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko on Wednesday announced the granting of pardons to 42 imprisoned opposition activists, in what analysts say is an effort at ...

A human rights group says a Belarusian man has died in prison while serving a prison sentence for insulting the country’s authoritarian president ...

TALLINN, Estonia — An imprisoned opposition activist in Belarus resurfaced Wednesday in a video shot by a pro-government blogger after over 700 days of no contact with his family, weeks before ...

TALLINN, Estonia — Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko was sworn in Tuesday to a seventh term, and he mocked those who derided him as “Europe’s last dictator” by saying ...

“Everyone understands now,” Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna told me, “that there is no situation anymore where ...

and military warehouses along their borders with Russia and Belarus, Estonian officials said on September 28. The three Baltic countries initially announced the plan for a "Baltic defense line" in ...

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania signed an agreement ... Much of the Baltics’ borders with Russia and client state Belarus consists of swamps, bogs, lakes, rivers and thick forests, obstacles ...

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Authorities in Belarus have opened a criminal case against the 78-year-old activist who became the face of the country's pro-democracy protests in 2020. Retired geologist ...

Authoritarian Leader of Belarus Is Sworn for a 7th Term and Tells His Critics 'You Have No Future' TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarus' authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko was sworn in ...

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