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A drone flew over Poland’s presidential residence — two Belarusians are now in custody

The State Protection Service neutralized the device after spotting it above Belweder and nearby government buildings. The incident unfolded on the same day Zapad-2025 military exercises intensified across the border.

byYuri Zoria

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Latvia bans Russians from buying property, calling it hybrid warfare threat

Latvia banned property sales to Russian and Belarusian citizens after parliament declared such transactions constitute "hybrid warfare" instruments, passing the measure in its conclusive reading 19 June.

byMaria Tril

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International

Former TUT.BY journalists launch new website as Lukashenka regime smothers free press

"When the number of independent outlets falls in Belarus, it's time to open new ones," says Zerkalo.io After…

byAlya Shandra

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“A blatant North Korea in the center of Europe.” Belarusian refugees explain why it’s so difficult to beat the dictatorship

Her name is Maria; her husband is Valeriy. I get anxious as I ladle them borscht in my…

byAlya Shandra

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International

Students, IT workers quit Belarus for Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania

The “Belarus of the Future” Charitable Foundation in Ukraine and the Polish government are ready to help incoming…

byBohdan Ben

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At least 240 arrested in Belarus protests against barring of opposition candidates (photos, videos)

Minsk, Belarus. 14 July 2020. Detention of journalists of Euroradio, Radio Svoboda, Belsat during live streaming. The video…

byBohdan Ben

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‘Belarusians aren’t Russians and never will be’

In 2003, Leonid Kuchma published a book emphasizing that “Ukraine is Not Russia” in response to increasing Russian…

byPaul A. Goble

The riot police detains a protester in Minsk, Belarus on March 25, 2017. (Credit: NN.By)

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Is Lukashenka running out of bullets? – and three other reasons why Belarus will never be the same again

In Gorbachev’s time, many Russians told an anecdote about a man who, having stood in line for hours…

byPaul A. Goble

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Lukashenka’s crackdown will not intimidate Belarusians now, Kalyakin says

Alyaksandr Lukashenka may crack down on protesters later this month in a bloody fashion just as he did…

byPaul A. Goble

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Russian agents in Minsk pushing Lukashenka to crack down hard, Belarusian analysts say

Russian agents in the Belarusian security services along with Russian agents in the blogosphere are calling on Alyaksandr…

byPaul A. Goble

"Non-vagrants" march in Babruysk Belarus, March 12 2017 (Image: video capture)

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The Belarusian nation has risen against Lukashenka

The Lukashenka regime, “like many other post-Soviet authoritarian” systems, rests “not on the total support of the citizens…

byPaul A. Goble

The cover of the book called "Istoriomor, or The Drilling into the Brain of Memory: Battles for the Truth about the GULAG, Deportations, the War and the Holocaust" by geographer and historian Pavel Polyan. “'Istoriomor' is a necessary “neologism and metaphor” to cover “the triumph of politicized mythology and anti-historicism over what is really history and memory.” It involves making certain themes and sources taboo, falsifying and mythologizing events, and both denial of the obvious and relativism about anything negative.

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Punished peoples fight Putin’s war on history with monuments to their deportations

A new book documents the way that the peoples whom Stalin deported are seeking to preserve the memory…

byPaul A. Goble

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Inauguration of memorial to Belarusians who died on Maidan and in ATO zone

The memorial represents a cross in the colours of the national flag of Belarus. The memorial site…

byUkrainian media sources

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Ukrainian events ‘Belarusianizing’ Belarus, Kyiv commentator says

As a result of events in Ukraine, a Kyiv commentator says, “a large number” of Belarusians has “suddenly…

byPaul A. Goble