Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, Belarus’s autocratic president and Russia’s closest ally, has taken steps to soften his country’s ...

Traditional military forces are not the only troops in play across Eastern Europe. Paramilitary forces make up a key ...

Almost three years to the day since Russia invaded Ukraine, President Donald Trump accused Ukraine of starting the war. He ...

President Aleksandar Vučić said the protesters were backed by Western countries he did not name, and said they wanted to ...

Pavel Latushko, culture minister between 2009 and 2012 and former Belarusian ambassador to Poland, at a protest against repression in Belarus, Warsaw, in August 2023. ATTILA HUSEJNOW/SOPA IMAGES ...

Over Eastern Europe fly some of the most advanced fighter jets in the world. From Russian-built Sukhois to American F-16s, ...

Warsaw expects arrivals to increase in March when temperatures turn warmer, although things could deteriorate as soon as this month, after the presidential election in Belarus. "It's very ...

“The Belarusian information space is tightly controlled by the government,” Natalia Belikova, the head of international cooperation at Press Club Belarus, told VOA from Warsaw. Repression ...

Those who would still try and force their way in are sent back to Belarus, a practice Warsaw defends as in line with its legal framework. “We have tightened our visa policy, and above all ...

A protester in Warsaw holds a placard with the image of the Belarusian ... who was visiting the plant as he himself sought a seventh term as president of Belarus, the Eastern European country he has ...

Belarusian leader and Russian ally Alexander Lukashenko extended his 31-year rule on Monday after electoral officials declared him the winner of a presidential election Western governments rejected as ...