Rights groups, activists and independent media in Russia and Belarus endured increased government scrutiny, repressive laws and even were shut down and forced to operate from exile abroad.

A project manager in Belarus's once-flourishing tech industry, Andrei Dorin admits his sector is in "crisis".Tech has been ...

The acclamation of Alexander Lukashenko as Belarus president for a seventh straight term was confirmed on January 26. The ...

Musk-led cuts to the US foreign aid agency have impacted rights groups, independent media, and election monitoring campaigns ...

In the years following the brutal suppression of pro-democracy protests in Belarus in 2020 and 2021, a wave of politically ...

Ihor Kyzym, Ambassador-at-Large for Belarus of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador of Ukraine to Belarus (2017-2023), believes that the Belarusian democratic movement has been somewhat ...

Maria Zaitseva, who was widely viewed as a heroine of the democracy movement in Belarus, was killed in action on Jan. 17 near ...

People all around the world face human rights violations at the hands of their own government. Often it can be for simple, ...

When President Donald Trump froze foreign assistance for 90 days, he argued that such a drastic step was needed to eliminate ...

The Trump plan is still evolving and no policy decisions have been made. However, Kellogg and other White House officials have recently discussed pushing Ukraine to agree to elections as part of an ...

China’s Ministry of Commerce announced plans on Sunday to file a legal complaint against the United States at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in response to US President Donald Trump’s decision to ...