- 15:37 07/10/2011 MINSK, October 7 (RIA Novosti)
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Friday he is ready to pardon former presidential candidates Andrei Sannikov and Nikolai Statkevich.
- 13:04 03/10/2011 MINSK, October 3 (RIA Novosti)
Belarus claims it is not bowing to external pressure by freeing political prisoners, particularly former presidential candidates, Belarusian Foreign Minister Sergei Martynov said on Monday.
- 12:54 02/10/2011 MINSK, October 2 (RIA Novosti)
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has pardoned another candidate in last year's presidential election convicted for taking part in post-election protests, the presidential press office said on Sunday.
- 20:44 14/09/2011 MOSCOW, September 14 (RIA Novosti)
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko pardoned 11 opposition activists jailed for taking part in last year's post-election protests in Minsk, the Belta news agency said on Wednesday.
- 15:42 02/09/2011 MOSCOW, September 2 (RIA Novosti)
Belarus' authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko has said he will pardon all people jailed for taking part in mass protests to denounce alleged vote-rigging in last year's presidential elections.
- 21:05 01/09/2011 MINSK, September 1 (RIA Novosti)
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has pardoned four people who took part in mass protests after last year's disputed presidential election.
- 14:19 15/08/2011 MINSK, August 15 (RIA Novosti)
All nine participants of the December 19 protests in Minsk whom Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko recently pardoned, have been released from prison, Belarusian rights center Vesna said on Monday.
- 11:39 23/06/2011 MOSCOW, June 23 (RIA Novosti)
Russian human rights activists said on Thursday that Russia must not remain indifferent to the brutal treatment of opposition protests in neighboring Belarus.
- 20:30 20/06/2011 BRUSSELS, June 20 (RIA Novosti)
European foreign ministers expanded sanctions on Monday against Belarus' authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko over a violent postelection crackdown on the opposition, the Council of the European Union said.
- 01:08 29/05/2011
Pressure must be applied to the Belarusian authorities to put an end to political repression of the country's opposition, U.S. President Barack Obama said during his visit to Poland on Saturday.
- 22:34 27/05/2011
The United States is set to expand sanctions against Belarus, U.S. President Barack Obama said in a statement on Friday.
- 16:10 27/05/2011
Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko on Friday ordered the closure of several Russian media outlets for printing "hysterical" articles on the country's currency crisis.
- 18:47 26/05/2011
A Minsk district court sentenced on Thursday ex-presidential candidates Nikolai Statkevich and Dmitry Uss to six and five-and-a-half years in a high-security prison respectively.
- 16:02 21/05/2011
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle condemned on Saturday the conviction of Belarusian opposition leaders for taking part in mass protests after last year's presidential poll.
- 18:54 20/05/2011
Two former Belarusian opposition presidential candidates and several election campaign activists were handed two-year suspended sentences on Friday.
- 17:37 20/05/2011
Poland may introduce sanctions against Belarusian companies financing the rule of president Alexander Lukashenko, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said on Friday.
- 17:52 16/05/2011
Russia has criticized Belarus over its human rights record, following the long sentences handed down last week to protesters accused of involvement in the riots following the elections in Minsk in December.
- 22:12 14/05/2011
A Belarusian court sentenced on Saturday a former presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov to five years in prison for organizing mass unrest.
- 14:42 13/05/2011
Belarusian state prosecutors demanded on Friday a 7-year jail term for a high-profile opposition leader charged with organizing mass protests against the re-election of veteran hardline President Alexander Lukashenko.
- 20:36 05/05/2011
Five Belarusian opposition activists have been sentenced for up to four years for their part in mass protests against the reelection of President Alexander Lukashenko.
- 18:41 28/04/2011
Belarusian Law enforcement officers detained a Russian human rights activist, Ivan Kondratenko, in Minsk on Thursday, according to a statement issued by the Committee for International Control over the human rights situation in Belarus.
- 22:06 18/03/2011
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko wishes that all of his rivals who run for presidency at the 2010 elections would leave the country.
- 19:34 12/03/2011
The Belarusian Prosecutor's Office has warned Andrzej Poczobut, a Belarus correspondent of Poland's Gazeta Wyborcza daily, that he will be prosecuted if he continues writing articles about the regime, Polish Radio reported.
- 22:15 10/03/2011
Two Russian nationals arrested in Belarus after a mass protest following the reelection of President Alexander Lukashenko, were fined $3,500 on Thursday and released.
- 15:34 10/03/2011
The European Union is preparing a new round of sanctions against the Belarusian authorities in response to a court ruling to jail three opposition figures, the EUobserver online paper said on Thursday.
- 05:03 05/03/2011
The United States has reiterated its call for the Belarusian authorities to release all opposition activists detained during protest demonstrations sparked by December's presidential elections.
- 15:48 28/02/2011
The backers of Belarusian ex-presidential candidate Vladimir Neklyaev on Monday urged the national leadership to treat them as political opponents rather than criminals.
- 13:10 22/02/2011
A Russian national detained in Belarus after a mass protest following the re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko said on Tuesday he was badly beaten by police.
- 20:21 19/02/2011
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Saturday disowned information about alleged ties between Belarusian senior officials and Russian fugitive tycoon Boris Berezovsky.
- 19:28 19/02/2011
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Saturday said he does not care about the criticism which came form the European Union following the conviction and sentencing of Belarusian opposition representative Vasily Parfenkov.
- 19:52 17/02/2011
A Minsk court on Thursday sentenced Belarusian opposition activist Vasily Parfenkov to four years in prison for participating in mass protests following the December 19 presidential elections.
- 15:40 10/02/2011
Artyom Breus, a Russian detained in Belarus on suspicion of participating in anti-presidential protests, told Russian diplomats he was intimidated and forced to bear false statements in custody, a spokesman for the Russian Embassy in Belarus said on Thursday.
- 23:47 08/02/2011
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called on Belarus on Tuesday to release all those detained during protests following Belarusian presidential elections in December.
- 23:53 05/02/2011
Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko may follow the same unfavorable destiny as his embattled Egyptian counterpart Hosni Mubarak, senior U.S. senator John McCain said on Friday.
- 12:09 04/02/2011
Belarus will not charge two Russian nationals detained with organizing riots in Minsk after the disputed December 19 presidential polls, a spokesman for the Russian embassy in Belarus said on Friday.
- 17:20 03/02/2011
Russia will not turn a blind eye to violations of human rights in Belarus following December's flawed presidential elections and a brutal clampdown on the opposition, Russia's foreign minister said on Thursday.
- 21:20 01/02/2011
EU sanctions against Minsk are politically motivated, destabilizing and counterproductive, Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
- 19:59 01/02/2011
EU sanctions against Minsk are politically motivated, destabilizing and counterproductive, Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
- 19:45 01/02/2011
The lower house of the Belarusian parliament expressed regret on Tuesday over calls for sanctions against Belarus from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
- 22:38 31/01/2011
The European Union and the United States on Monday announced the introduction of new travel and financial sanctions on Belarus in response to December's flawed elections and a brutal clampdown on opposition leaders and protesters.
- 20:53 31/01/2011
Belarus will take measures in response to the EU sanctions against top Belarusian officials, Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Savinykh said on Monday.
- 01:21 31/01/2011
The European Union's foreign ministers will consider sanctions against Belarus at their meeting in Brussels on Monday.
- 20:00 30/01/2011
Belarusian opposition members gathered for an unsanctioned rally in front of the Belarusian security service (KGB) building in downtown Minsk on Sunday.
- 22:09 29/01/2011
Belarusian ex-presidential candidate Vladimir Neklyaev and another opposition member have been freed from jail, his lawyer said on Saturday.
- 11:37 29/01/2011
The editor of the Belarusian opposition website Charter 97, Natalya Radina, has been freed from a pre-trial detention centre, the website said on Saturday.
- 15:12 28/01/2011
The Russian Embassy in Minsk criticized the Belarusian authorities on Friday for keeping two alleged Russian protesters in custody for a month without evidence, a spokesman said on Friday.
- 20:58 27/01/2011
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has called on the 47 CE member states to reject the results of the December 19 presidential election in Belarus, PACE said in a resolution.
- 14:27 27/01/2011
Belarus says it is ready to resume dialogue with Poland despite visa sanctions.
- 14:17 24/01/2011
Belarusian prosecutors denied on Monday allegations that a probe into post-election arrests in the country was "flawed."
- 04:15 21/01/2011
The United States supports an EU resolution calling for sanctions against the Belarusian leadership and is ready to take similar measures, a State Department spokesman said on Friday.
- 23:56 20/01/2011
Belarus has rejected as baseless the European Parliament's resolution calling for EU sanctions against the country's leadership, saying it was against the interest of EU-Belarus ties.
- 18:07 20/01/2011
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he would discuss the release of Russian citizens arrested in Belarus with his Belarusian counterpart Mikhail Myasnikovich.
- 16:19 20/01/2011
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Thursday ordered the government to respond to the European Parliament's sanctions against him and scores of other officials.
- 14:58 20/01/2011
The European Parliament voted on Thursday in favor of sanctions against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and his top aides over post-election beatings and arrests.
- 13:57 20/01/2011
The European Parliament has drawn up a draft resolution urging European leaders to impose an entry ban and asset freeze on the Belarusian officials responsible for a crackdown on the opposition after recent disputed polls.
- 21:51 19/01/2011
The EU's top diplomat confirmed on Wednesday plans to impose a travel ban on Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko over a clampdown on the opposition after the disputed elections.
- 17:14 19/01/2011
The EU should develop a unified decision concerning the Belarus situation by the end of January, the head of the EU delegation to Russia, Fernando Valenzuela, said on Wednesday.
- 10:54 18/01/2011
Poland has imposed an entry ban on Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and several state officials following a post-election crackdown on the opposition in Minsk, the PAP news agency said on Tuesday.
- 18:14 12/01/2011
The European Union will toughen measures against Belarus officials responsible for a crackdown on opposition protesters in Minsk in December, EU foreign affairs chief, Catherine Ashton, said on Wednesday.
- 16:33 12/01/2011
European Parliament chairman Jerzy Buzek said on Wednesday the regime of Alexander Lukashenko, who secured a fourth term in last month's presidential polls in Belarus, has no democratic legitimacy.
- 15:41 12/01/2011
European Parliament Chairman Jerzy Buzek has called for the revision of EU policy towards Belarus in response to the heavy-handed crackdown on opposition protesters in the country in December.
- 02:50 07/01/2011
A total of 25 suspects, two of them Russian nationals, were charged over the recent post-election mass riots in Minsk.
- 19:18 06/01/2011
A Minsk district court on Thursday refused to release Vladimir Neklyaev, an opposition presidential candidate, from custody.
- 16:43 04/01/2011
Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko may be put back on the EU entry ban list over post-election beatings and arrests last month, Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt has said.
- 21:33 03/01/2011
The lawyer for Belarusian ex-presidential candidate Vladimir Neklyaev, detained two weeks ago over participation in unsanctioned post-election rally in Minsk, on Monday announced he has filed an appeal against Neklyaev's detention.
- 15:50 03/01/2011
Two Russian nationals remain in custody after taking part in Belarus rally denouncing the December 19 presidential polls, a spokesman for the Belarusian police said on Monday.
- 14:05 03/01/2011
Ex-presidential candidate Vitaly Rymashevsky detained two weeks ago over his involvement in Belarus post-election rally has been released, his party's website said.
- 18:36 31/12/2010
Belarusian authorities have discontinued the mandate of the OSCE office in the country's capital Minsk after Europe's top rights watchdog lambasted December's presidential elections, the Belarusian Foreign Ministry reported on Friday.
- 23:37 30/12/2010
The European Parliament will meet on January 12 to discuss possible sanctions against Belarus following a clampdown on protests against the results of the recent presidential polls, parliament chief Jerzy Buzek said on Thursday.
- 17:47 30/12/2010
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko claimed on Thursday that foreigners were behind the violent opposition protests in Minsk that followed the presidential elections on December 19.
- 23:03 29/12/2010
Belarus has released all the Russian nationals detained in the country's capital of Minsk during a protest rally against the reelection of President Alexander Lukashenko, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.
- 13:16 29/12/2010
Belarus's Supreme Court is studying the cases of Russian nationals arrested during opposition protests, a court spokesman said on Wednesday.
- 20:43 28/12/2010
Russian nationals arrested during opposition protests in Belarus on Tuesday appealed to the Supreme Court against a decision by a Minsk court not to release them, Russian Embassy official Vadim Gusev said.
- 15:43 28/12/2010
Russian nationals arrested during opposition protests in Belarus will on Tuesday appeal to the Supreme Court against a decision by a Minsk court not to release them, a Russian embassy official said.
- 18:26 27/12/2010
The Minsk city court on Monday refused to release Russian nationals detained in the Belarusian capital during riots after the country's presidential elections.
- 19:56 25/12/2010
The Belarus court in Minsk will hold on Monday a second hearing on the case of Russian nationals detained during the riots after the country's December 19 presidential elections.
- 06:04 24/12/2010
The U.S. human rights organization Freedom House called on the European Union and the United States to renew full sanctions against Belarus.
- 22:48 23/12/2010
Police in Belarus have released about 100 supporters of Belarusian opposition detained in Minsk during an unauthorized protest rally after Sunday's presidential election that saw incumbent leader Alexander Lukashenko win a landslide victory, police said.
- 22:59 22/12/2010
Former Belarusian presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov, who is currently being held in custody, has been brutally beaten and being denied qualified medical treatment, his lawyer said on Wednesday.
- 19:03 22/12/2010
Sunday's presidential elections in Belarus were marred by mass violations of electoral procedures, with more than 800 serious fraud cases registered by international observers, an official monitor from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said on Wednesday.
- 16:53 22/12/2010
Russia has demanded the release of all Russian nationals detained in the Belarusian capital of Minsk during riots after the country's presidential elections on Sunday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
- 14:59 22/12/2010
The Belarusian authorities released a St. Petersburg press photographer on Wednesday who was jailed for rioting after the country's presidential elections on Sunday, a fellow journalist said.
- 12:41 22/12/2010
Seventeen people, including six Belarusian presidential candidates, are facing lengthy jail terms for spearheading protests against the re-election of long-standing President Alexander Lukashenko.
- 14:27 21/12/2010
Nine Russians were among those detained in Belarus in Sunday's opposition riots, a spokesman for the Russian Embassy in Minsk, Vadim Gusev, said on Tuesday.
- 13:56 21/12/2010
Leaders of opposition parties and democratic movements in Belarus blamed the authorities on Tuesday for provoking violence in the aftermath of the recent presidential elections.
- 13:16 21/12/2010
St. Petersburg press photographer Alexander Astafyev has been sentenced to 10 days in prison in Belarus for participating in Sunday's opposition riots in Minsk, the newspaper said on Tuesday.
- 11:22 21/12/2010
A photographer from a St. Petersburg newspaper sentenced to 15-day jail term in Belarus for participating in Sunday's opposition riots in Minsk has declared a hunger strike and demands a meeting with the Russian ambassador, Ekho Moskvy radio station said on Tuesday.
- 10:39 21/12/2010
A photographer from a St. Petersburg newspaper sentenced to 15-day jail term in Belarus for participating in Sunday's opposition riots in Minsk has declared a hunger strike and has demanded a meeting with the Russian ambassador, Ekho Moskvy radio station said on Tuesday.
- 15:51 20/12/2010
Sunday's presidential elections in Belarus, which were blemished by subsequent opposition riots, will complicate relations between Moscow and Minsk, Russian political experts have said.
- 14:29 20/12/2010
Actions taken by Belarusian Special Police Forces against Russian journalists were not justified, a representative of Russian Embassy in Minsk said on Monday.
- 12:39 20/12/2010
Police detained a photographer from a St. Petersburg newspaper during Sunday's opposition riots in Minsk, the newspaper's website said on Monday.
- 12:31 20/12/2010
Two Belarusian opposition candidates have demanded the cancelation of the country's presidential election results after "Europe's last dictator," Alexander Lukashenko, won by a landslide in what observers describe as large-scale vote rigging.
- 10:54 20/12/2010
Police in Belarus have detained some 600 people at an opposition rally against Sunday's presidential election which protesters claimed was rigged, the Ekho Moskvy radio station reported.
- 03:29 20/12/2010 By Tom Balmforth
Thousands of Belarusians were brutally dispersed in clashes with Interior Ministry troops late Sunday when opposition protestors tried to storm Parliament after preliminary results showed strongman President Alexander Lukashenko has won a fourth term at the helm.
- 02:22 20/12/2010
An unauthorized rally by the Belarusian opposition in the country's capital Minsk is over, no protestors are in the street.
- 00:51 20/12/2010
The Belarusian opposition held a protest rally. According to the Interior Ministry, 1,500-2,500 people gathered on Independence Square.
- 00:27 20/12/2010
Several Belarusian opposition members were injured in clashes with police when they tried to storm the government's building.
- 00:06 20/12/2010
Several thousand Opposition activists are trying to storm the Belarus government building in protest of Sunday's presidential election.
- 23:31 19/12/2010
Opposition activists are trying to storm the Belarus government building, a RIA Novosti correspondent has reported.
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