The British and German Foreign Ministers call for sanctions against Belarus. read more

Uladzimir Kobets, head of the election team of a former presidential candidate Andrei Sannikau, has been released. He was imprisoned on December 21. "Many things are new to me at liberty", - says the recent prisoner of the KGB detention centre. read more

According to General Kulyashow, during court proceedings, journalists will be able to see with their own eyes whether there were provocations on the part of secret services during the December 19 post-election protest in Independence Square in Minsk. read more

Aon Risk Solutions measures the political risk of 211 countries and territories based on the level of risks such as currency inconvertibility and exchange transfer; strikes, riots and civil commotion; war; civil war; sovereign non-payment; political interference; supply chain disruption and legal read more

The European Parliament on Thursday adopted a resolution calling on the European Union to impose tough sanctions against the Lukashenka regime in the wake of the government’s post-election crackdown on opponents, and demanding a re-run of the December 14-19 presidential election in accordance with read more

Volha Nyaklyaeva, the wife of the political prisoner, ex-presidential candidate and poet Uladzimir Nyaklyaeu received the first letter from her husband on January 17. The first letter from the leader of the United Civic Party Anatol Liabedzka has arrived from the KGB detention center. read more

Belarussians call Dec. 19, 2010, their "Bloody Sunday." If Europe manages to muster the courage to stand up to Minsk, this day might be remembered as the beginning of the end of Mr. Lukashenko’s tyrannic rule. read more

Catherine Ashton's spokesperson Maja Kocijancic informed the foreign media on January 7 that such a meeting was planned. The Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that Siarhej Martynau is in Brussels on January 10. read more

Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt has said that Belarusian leader Aleksander Lukashenko will be put back on an EU visa ban list along with dozens of officials responsible for post-election beatings and arrests. read more

Former presidential candidate Vital Rymashewski and Andrey Dzmitryyew, the former campaign chief of presidential candidate Uladzimir Nyaklyayew, have been released from the KGB’s detention center in Minsk on their own recognizance. read more