Recession in Russia and low commodity prices have had a major impact on Belarus’s economy. The economy is expected to contract by 3 percent in 2016 and by 1 percent in 2017 as the external shocks have an enduring impact on the economy. read more

‘It could be quite difficult living here, sometimes unbearable, confusing, incomprehensible, both funny and devastating’ read more

Belarusian author Svetlana Alexievich visited the DW studio in Germany. The Nobel Prize winner admitted she'd rather have more time to herself and explained what life is all about. read more

The Belarusian Nobel laureate on the legacy of Chernobyl on its 30th anniversary, being an ‘unperson’ in her home country and writing non-fiction as literature read more

On the edge of Belarus' Chernobyl exclusion zone, down the road from the signs warning "Stop! Radiation," a dairy farmer offers his visitors a glass of freshly drawn milk. Associated Press reporters politely decline the drink but pass on a bottled sample to a laboratory, which confirms it read more

We meet the people most affected by the nuclear catastrophe, from the Pripyat evacuee to the daughter of a KGB first responder read more

Three generations explain how their lives were transformed by the nuclear explosion in 1986 read more

One of Australia’s fastest-growing businesses started with 1,000 cheap TVs. read more

Belarus wants to improve trade and commercial ties with the European Union to offset a "new wave" of damaging influences on its flagging economy, such as a protracted recession in neighbouring Russia, the Belarusian government said on Friday. read more

Thirty years on, the legacy of the disaster, and of the Soviet Union, continue to blight the region read more