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A court in Bishkek has acquitted former Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambaev in a case related to mass protests that swept the Central Asian nation in 2020.

The chairman of the attorneys chamber in Russia's Udmurtia region, Dmitry Talantov, has been detained after he criticized the government and military forces over a deadly strike on a shopping mall in the Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk.

The Russian girlfriend of a Belarusian dissident sentenced to six years in prison has asked strongman Alexander Lukashenko for a pardon, state media said on Monday.

Sofia Sapega's plea comes a year after she was detained by the KGB on a diverted flight in Minsk.

Sapega was sentenced in May to six years in prison for "inciting social hatred" and "violence and threats".

Ever more governments are reaching beyond their borders to silence their critics, according to a new Freedom House report

BelaPAN journalists and activists, including our former colleague Andrei Aliaksandrau must be released and the charges against them dropped.

VILNIUS - Lithuania's assistance to the Belarusians goes beyond words or statements expressing concern, Belarusian opposition leader Sviatla...

Without a free Ukraine, there will be no free Belarus, and without a free Belarus, there will be no safe Ukraine and no ...

The 24-year-old Russian Sofia Sapega was with her boyfriend Raman Pratasevich on a Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius in May 2021 when it was diverted to Minsk by Belarusian authorities.