Rights groups and independent media in Russia and Belarus face funding challenges due to increased scrutiny and repressive ...

Rights groups, activists and independent media in Russia and Belarus endured increased government scrutiny, repressive laws ...

According to the Ukrainian president, Putin will try to drag Belarus into the war. After an interview with David Lammy, the ...

The Baltic states are set to sever ties with Russia's power grid that date back to the 1950s, and instead integrate further ...

The southern Druzhba route via Ukraine saw total Russian oil flows to the EU member states decline by 15% to 11.5 million tons last year, according to Vedomosti’s sources. This equals about 230,300 ...

The Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia are bracing themselves for possible retaliation as they decouple from ...

Estonia, along with fellow Baltic states Latvia and Lithuania, is preparing finally to rid itself of one of the last vestiges ...

Belarus's authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko moved the 2025 presidential election to January to avoid protests, ensuring a likely seventh term. Lukashenko relies heavily on Russian support ...

Lukashenko is a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and he relies on subsidies and political support from Moscow to maintain his iron-fisted grip on power in Belarus. As he bargained ...

When the election concludes on Sunday, he’s all but certain to add a seventh term as the only leader most people in post-Soviet Belarus have ever known. (24 Jan.) Portraits of candidates are displayed ...