Her name is Maria; her husband is Valeriy. I get anxious as I ladle them borscht in my kitchen in Kyiv. After all, theirs was the best restaurant in Mozyr, an industrial Belarusian city a mere 250 km to the north. It was frequented by the...
In an interview with Le Temps, Sviatlana Tsikhanoŭskaya says that at present, the Belarusian opposition has “lost the streets” and cannot withstand the force being used by the regime of Alyaksandr Lukashenka but...
“Remember, I said a year ago … that perhaps a time will come when Russian President Vladimir Putin and I will have to stand next to each other and shoot back. And you took it for a joke. But you now see how life has turned...
Since Pavel Sheremet was murdered in July 2016 in Kyiv, Ukrainian investigators had a difficult time figuring out the motive. Nothing seemed to fit: the Belarusian-Ukrainian journalist hadn’t authored any hard-hitting investigation...
It is now three months since Belarusians said they had enough of the rule of the “last dictator in Europe” and rose up against rigged elections. Every day of these three months, Belarusians from all regions and walks of life...
Nina Baginskaya, a 73-year-old Belarusian pensioner and civil activist, has taken part in protests since 1988 – first against Communism, then against dictator Alyaksandr Lukashenka. She became widely known in 2006 after the...
It is clear that the Belarusians did not come out because they support Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, who was actually an accidental candidate for the presidency… and not even because they understand what kind of country they want to...
Valery Tsepkalo, who was barred from participating in the Belarusian election set for 9 August and escaped to Moscow with his children, has surfaced in Kyiv, his press secretary told Interfax. The former ambassador to the US and...
Photographs started to spread on the Internet with the law enforcement officers expressing solidarity with the people: near the shoulder straps, sheets of paper are placed saying “Lukashenka is not my President”, “I am...
Detention of Babaryka demonstrates disregard to detainee’s rights and principles of unbiased investigation Babaryka’s lawyer Alexander Pylchenko described how Viktor Babaryka was detained. On the morning of 18 June at about 9...
Putin’s goals and philosophy Sławomir Sierakowski: What is Putin’s ultimate goal in this war? Timothy Snyder: That’s no big secret: to destroy Ukraine as a state and exterminate Ukrainians as a nation. I’d...
