Demonstrators in Warsaw, Riga, Prague, and Vilnius decried the likely January 26 voting victory of Belarusian strongman Alyaksandr Lukashenka. The Washington-based Freedom House advocacy group said the expected start of Lukashenka's seventh term as president signifies the entrenchment of "an authoritarian state" and the European Parliament has called the vote a sham.
Wider Europe
Monday 27 January 2025
'A Haunting Place': Auschwitz 80 Years After Liberation Of Infamous Nazi Death Camp
- By RFE/RL,
- Reuters and
- Will Tizard
Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27 marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The infamous Nazi death camp was located in German-occupied Poland during World War II. More than 1 million people -- mostly Jews -- were systematically killed at the site.
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