Officials in Belarus are pushing for a law requiring citizens to supply the state with DNA samples, but RFE/RL’s Belarus Service has learned that authorities in the tightly controlled country have already been quietly compiling a DNA database of people viewed with suspicion by the state.
Images of an Afghan delegation in tribal clothing visiting a food manufacturer in central Belarus sparked an outcry online, then photos of the visit disappeared from Belarusian websites.
A visit to a weapons manufacturing plant by Belarusian leader Aleksandr Lukashenko on August 18 highlighted an assault rifle Minsk is claiming was made entirely inside Belarus.
Amid a spate of tunnels being dug from Belarus into the EU, border authorities say Minsk is dismissing intelligence alerting it to migrant tunnel construction.
Opposition Belarusian politician Alyaksandr Milinkevich, who ran for president in 2006, has died following an illness aged 79, according to a social media post by his stepson.
Ukraine alleges Russia is using relay stations in Belarus to guide attack drones and change targets mid-flight. The claims have raised tensions with Minsk and drawn renewed attention to Belarus's role in the war.
Belarusian leader Aleksandr Lukashenko once predicted a quick Russian victory in Ukraine. Now, after Zelenskyy delivered an ultimatum to switch off signal repeaters in Belarus for Moscow's drones, he is walking a fine line aimed at making sure his country doesn’t get dragged into that war.
Aleksandr Lukashenko is walking a fine line aimed at making sure that Belarus does not get dragged into Russia’s war in Ukraine following an ultimatum by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that hinted at Ukrainian military or covert action.
An art initiative is reminding the world of the political prisoners held in Belarus through traditional cross-stitch embroidery.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned neighboring Belarus -- a close ally of Russia – to remove signaling equipment used by the Kremlin to target Ukraine or, he said, Kyiv would do the job itself.
Russian authorities said a Ukrainian drone hit a bus carrying a Belarusian children's football team in Russia's Bryansk region, a claim Kyiv said was "false."
A woman from Guinea who was deported from Belarus without her infant daughter has finally been reunited with the child after more than a year apart. Rights groups say the separation ended only after pressure from the UN, UNICEF, and Guinean diplomats.
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