News that the envoys of Russia and Belarus were on the invitation list reached Belarusian opposition figure Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya. She called on the Swedish Nobel Foundation and the Norwegian ...

A third member of a Belarusian family has been told to leave Sweden by September 3 after a relative was arrested in Belarus following his deportation after being denied political asylum.

Sweden in turn recalled its representative in Belarus to Stockholm for consultations, the Swedish Foreign Ministry confirmed to RFE/RL’s Belarus Service on January 5.

On behalf of all Belarusians and himself, President of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko has congratulated the people of Sweden on National ...

Belarus and Iran, as well as the leader of a far-right Swedish party, who had previously been banned. Vidar Helgesen, the executive director of the private foundation said in a statement that ...

curtains and towels” for the Swedish manufacturer. Disclose says other IKEA suppliers resorted to forced labor from prisoners in Belarus’ IK-15 penal colony and IK-2 juvenile prison.

The foundation that administers the prestigious Nobel awards has reversed its invitation policy and invited Russia, Belarus and Iran, and all members of the Swedish parliament, including a far ...