Belarus Court Convicts Minsk Subway Bombers
A court in Belarus has found two defendants guilty of carrying out the deadly Minsk metro bombing that killed 15 people and injured hundreds of others. View full post on Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
A court in Belarus has found two defendants guilty of carrying out the deadly Minsk metro bombing that killed 15 people and injured hundreds of others. View full post on Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says Moscow is slashing the price Minsk has to pay for gas to less than half the average paid by other European states. View full post on Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Christian organizations in Minsk filed a lawsuit today against police in connection with the violent dispersal on November 22 of Christians gathered in the Belarusian capital’s October Square. View full post on Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
It was a meeting that was supposed to highlight Poland’s attempts to bring some of the European Union’s eastern neighbors closer to the EU. Instead, the Eastern Partnership summit in Warsaw will be remembered for the EU’s strong condemnation of the situation in Belarus and its concerns about the fate of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. View full post on Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
The two suspects, both aged 25, are both from the northern city of Vitebsk. They face the death penalty if found guilty. View full post on Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Belarusian police today detained dozens of people during an unauthorized antigovernment protest in Minsk. View full post on Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka has used most of the instruments in the dictator’s toolbox to repress his people. On the evening of June 29, he employed a novel weapon: disco music. View full post on Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
(Minsk, Belarus) Aleh Hruzdzilovich, video journalist for RFE’s Belarus Service, Radio Svaboda , was detained by police in Minsk for three hours while covering a “silent protest” organized through social networks . Hruzdzilovich was at the demonstration in October Square, which had been cordoned off by metal barriers, when he was knocked down, kicked and dragged by riot police and put into a waiting police van.
Hruzdzilovich, a longtime RFE …
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Although authorities in Belarus remain quiet about the suspects detained in connection with the April 11 Minsk subway bombing that killed 13 people, the investigation is in full swing. Police are combing the city of Vitsebsk for clues and prosecutors are issuing official warnings to independent media for “sowing panic.” View full post on Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Former IRA operative Sean O’Callaghan helped plan and execute several deadly terror attacks in Northern Ireland. He gives his insights into the possible motivation behind last week’s bomb attack in Belarus. View full post on Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty