Ales Dashchynski is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Belarus Service.
A Minsk priest has been suspended by the Belarusian Orthodox Church for posting photos of Russian Patriarch Kirill's extensive security detail during his visit to Minsk.
A retired prosecutor's quest to root out corruption in Belarus's health-care system lifted the lid on a massive scandal.
A Belarusian ensemble named after the popular Soviet-era band Pesniary says it was tricked into performing at a Kyiv rally in support of Ukraine's beleaguered president.
Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka took to the TV airwaves last week to publicly criticize, then fire, a handful of top-ranking officials for failing to modernize an unprofitable timber mill. Those dismissed include the 66-year-old former governor of Minsk Oblast, Barys Batura, who has spent decades in government service and was widely viewed as a compliant presidential ally. So why did he get the ax?
