A senior Kazakh official says the Central Asian nation will not accept a single currency in a trade bloc championed by Moscow. read more

Aleksandr Lukashenko has been president of Belarus for so long that he was sometimes called Europe’s last dictator. read more

The draft of a document being prepared for an Eastern Partnership summit in May suggests a number of the European Union's eastern neighbors will be disappointed with a lack of progress in key areas. read more

Russia's withdrawal from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces is not only symbolic. read more

Trains from Belarus to Ukraine are full with people who go on shopping trips. read more

Belarus’s authoritarian president helped broker Ukraine crisis talks again last week. Now EU diplomats are looking to thaw ties with Minsk. read more

In Belarus, smuggling is a fine art, and, unlike stealing, morally acceptable. read more

The potash industry, which provides the potassium used to grow bigger fruits and vegetables worldwide, is facing a global price war as Belarus seeks to strengthen its share of the $20 billion market. read more

Belarus may get the first step towards a visa-free regime with the EU if it releases political prisoners in time for an Eastern Partnership summit in May, senior officials from the Latvian EU presidency have said. read more

Over the course of his two decades in power, Aleksandr Lukashenko, Belarus’s autocratic president, has perfected the art of weaving between Russia and the West. But with the fighting in eastern Ukraine approaching his country’s doorstep and Russia’s struggling economy weighing down his own, read more