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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announces the release of American citizen Anastasia Nufer from a prison in Belarus.
2025-01-26

Belarusian foreign minister Maxim Ryzhenkov Уладзіміравіч Рыжанкоў is invited to make Belarus's first foreign ministry visit to North Korea regarding cooperation with Russia in conflicts with the Western world.
2024-07-22

Global Affairs Canada announces new sanctions against Belarus on the three-year anniversary of the 2020 Belarusian presidential election.
2023-08-9

A court in Minsk, Belarus, sentences human rights activist and 2022 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski to 10 years in prison on charges of "financing actions violating public order" and smuggling.
2023-03-3

Secretary of the Belarus Foreign Ministry Anatoly Glaz says that Belarus is ready to help bring peace to Ukraine amid reports of possible peace talks in Minsk.
2022-02-25

Researchers at the American cybersecurity firm Mandiant report that the Belarusian government has ties to the hacker group Ghostwriter, which was accused of targeting various German politicians and ministries in September and has since been accused of launching misinformation campaigns against Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Ukraine.
2021-11-16

Poland increases the number of soldiers deployed on its border with Belarus from 6,000 to "about 10,000" in order to prevent the flow of further illegal crossings by Middle Eastern migrants being flown in by the Belarusian government. The troop surge comes after two border guards were hospitalized over the weekend after a group of 70 migrants stormed a section of the border.
2021-10-26

The governments of the Baltic states declare Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and 29 other government officials "persona non grata" for suspected electoral fraud in the recent election and for attempting to suppress the protests responding to the election.
2020-08-31

Russia and Belarus begin a six-day joint strategic military exercise inside Belarus and Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast. The military exercise simulates war against the fictional state of Veyshnoria. According to the Defence Ministry of Belarus, fewer than 13,000 personnel will be taking part in the exercise; however, Western analysts believe the total number will range from 60,000 to 100,000.
2017-09-14

Belarus president Alexander Lukashenko is sworn in for a fourth time following the disputed presidential election.
2011-01-21