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Hundreds of people in Warsaw on Saturday rallied in support of the Belarusian opposition, days after the regime in Minsk diverted a European passenger plane and arrested a dissident journalist onboard.

Russia will move ahead with a second $500 million loan to Belarus in June, following talks between the two countries leaders amid uproar in the West over the grounding of a passenger jet in Minsk and the arrest of a dissident blogger.

Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko are holding a second day of talks in Sochi, as the US imposes sanctions for the hijacking scandal.Russia has a

The tour comes amid international uproar over the hijacking of a Ryanair flight to detain a dissident journalist.

The parents of kidnapped Belarus student Sofia Sapega have begged Putin to release her from jail.   Sapega, 23, is the partner of dissident journalist Roman Protasevich and was travelling with him on a flight from Athens to Vilnius, in Lithuania, when Belarus scrambled a military jet and forced their plane to land in Minsk.  It comes as flight data shows that airspace over Belarus is virtually empty following the incident which has drawn international criticism.  Russian national Sapega i...

Moscow, May 30 (IANS) Russia will support Belarus with $500 million in credit over the coming weeks, the leaders of the two countries have agreed.

Russia is to move ahead with a second US$500 million loan to Belarus next month, following talks between the two countries’ leaders amid uproar in the West over the grounding of a passenger jet in Minsk and the arrest of a dissident blogger. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko held a second day of talks, as well as a yacht tour, in the Russian city of Sochi on Saturday. Russia promised Belarus a US$1.5 billion loan last year as part of Moscow’s effo...

The man who calls himself Putin's No. 1 enemy says the forced landing of a Ryanair plane in Minsk constitutes state-sponsored terrorism

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko discussed economic relations including trade and the fight against the COVI

The Belarusian rights group Vyasna says detained journalist and opposition activist Raman Pratasevich has been moved to a pretrial detention facility run by the country’s main security agency, the KGB.