Updated at 13:53,23-12-2024
Belarus: Nobel laureate wades into national emblem row
The Belarusian winner of this year's Nobel Prize for literature, Svetlana Alexievich, is backing a group of four army cadets in her native country at the centre of a row over the country's national emblem. read more 
Down on their luck: Minsk casinos hit by Russian downturn
Falling oil prices and western sanctions mean the era of the Moscow high rollers bringing $100,000 to spend in a weekend is over - for now at least read more 
Belarus bookshop braves the state to publish Nobel winner's work
Underground publisher says it is risking regulations to translate Svetlana Alexievich’s novels into her home language read more
CIS leaders sign military cooperation pact
The leaders of the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) have signed 17 agreements, including a statement on combating international terrorism and an agreement on military cooperation through 2020. read more 
Banned in Belarus, but the shows go on
The tidy and anonymous room, which is entered through a fenced courtyard in a sleepy residential neighborhood of this Eastern European city, is not large. It was once a garage, just big enough to accommodate a few sedans or, in this case, the closely clustered group of about 50 that has assembled read more 
Wildlife thriving around Chernobyl nuclear plant despite radiation
High numbers of elk, deer, boar and wolves show long-term effect of world’s worst nuclear accident is less damaging than everyday human activity, say scientists read more 
New Nobel literature prize winner transcends easy categories
With a reporter's eye and an artist's heart, Svetlana Alexievich writes of the catastrophes, upheaval and personal woes that have afflicted the Soviet Union and the troubled countries that succeeded it. Her writings, characterized by plain language and detail so visceral it's sometimes painful to read more 
Belarus poll: EU lifts sanctions on Lukashenko – ‘Europe’s last dictator’
Despite concerns about Alexander Lukashenko’s victory with 83.5% of the vote, EU ministers suspend sanctions for four months read more 
The Guardian view on Europe and Belarus: engage without illusion
The re-election of Alexander Lukashenko was a sham. Any dialogue with him must come with clear conditions attached read more 
Aleksandr Lukashenko of Belarus wins fifth term as president
Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, the authoritarian president of Belarus, who suffered the indignity last week of seeing one of his sharpest critics win the Nobel Prize in Literature, won a prize of his own on Sunday: the presidency of Belarus, though that outcome had never been in doubt. read more |
