Security forces were seen detaining people at an anti-government march in the Belarusian capital, Minsk, on Sunday, November 29. With larger turnouts at the weekends, demonstrations against Alyaksandr Lukashenka have been ongoing since a disputed August 9 presidential election.
The United Arab Emirates has stopped issuing new visas to citizens of 13 mostly Muslim-majority countries, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran, according to a document issued by a state-owned business park.
Voters test electoral reforms intended to provide a broader range of political representation in the legislature. On October 31, citizens are deciding whether a ruling party will run the government on its own for an unprecedented third consecutive time. (RFE/RL's Georgian Service)
Amid ongoing protests following a presidential election widely seen as rigged, many Belarusians are showing a renewed interest in their native language and culture.
Turkish as well as Israeli and cheaper Russian-made drones are being used to powerful effect during Azerbaijan's attacks in and around the country's breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Police in Khabarovsk detained several dozen protesters on October 10 -- the first such crackdown since rallies against the arrest of the provincial governor started three months ago against Governor Sergei Furgal's arrest seen by protesters as a political plot by the Kremlin. (AP, Reuters)
Heavy fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone entered a second day on September 28 amid international calls for restraint.
The transport plane carrying air force cadets crashed and exploded near a highway in northeastern Ukraine in the evening of September 25. All but one out of 27 people aboard died. (Reuters)
Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka has been sworn in for a sixth term following an unexpected inauguration ceremony that was moved up amid mass protests. Lukashenka claims he won an August 9 election by a landslide but the vote was widely seen as rigged.
In a prerecorded address from Tehran on September 22, Iranian President Hassan Rohani has told the UN General Assembly that although life is difficult under U.S. sanctions, it is “harder still [to live] without independence.”
A Belarusian student who was severely beaten during protests in Minsk has told Current Time about his ordeal at the hands of the security forces.
Leading Belarusian soccer players, including current members of the national team, have issued a video message condemning a police crackdown against anti-government demonstrators. Protests began on August 9 after President Alyaksandr Lukashenka claimed victory in an election widely seen as rigged.
Afghan government officials, Taliban extremists, and U.S. officials are in the Qatari capital, Doha, for the negotiations that opened on September 12 designed to bring permanent cease-fire, ensure the rights of women and minorities, etc. (Reuters)
Exiled Belarus opposition leader Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya, in a virtual appearance before the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on September 8, urged international pressure, including sanctions on President Alyaksandr Lukashenka and his government. (Council of Europe)
Belarusian opposition leader Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya addressed an informal session of the UN Security Council on September 4 hosted by Estonia. She called for a special UN Human Rights Commission session over the violent crackdown by the government of President Alyaksandr Lukashenka. (Reuters)
The mother of a Belarusian man who died after being detained by security officials is demanding a criminal inquiry into his death. Alyaksandr Vikhor, 25, died in a hospital in Homel.
A Belarusian protester has proposed to his girlfriend during ongoing demonstrations against President Alyaksandr Lukashenka. The moment was captured on camera with crowds cheering them. Mass protests began after Lukashenka declared a landslide victory in an August 9 election widely seen as rigged.
Wrapped in white-red-white national flags the march participants on August 29 chanted slogans demanding President Aleksandr Lukashenka to step down and violent postelection crackdown perpetrators to be brought to justice as 17 journalists from foreign media were stripped of accreditations. (Reuters)
On August 29, locals in the Russian Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk have held yet another protest against the July arrest of the region’s popular former governor, Sergei Furgal, the suspected August 20 poisoning of Aleksei Navalny, expressed support for anti-Lukashenka movement in Belarus. (Reuters)
Torrential rain lashed the Pakistani city of Karachi on August 27, causing widespread flooding. People were seen wading through knee-high water as cars were submerged and houses inundated.
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