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

Peace initiatives have always been at the heart of Belarus’ fundamentals, and this will ever be the case – as stated by the Press ...

Its capital, Minsk, is the political ... although Russian is also widely spoken throughout the country. Belarus is a presidential republic, with a legal system based on civil law, structured ...

After breaking away from a crumbling Soviet Union in the early 1990s, Belarus became increasingly aligned with Russia, unlike its neighbors. That bond strengthened as Russia waged its war against ...

MINSK, February 3. /TASS/. Capital punishment cannot be abolished in Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Europe’s only retentionist country, said on Friday. "I have no right to ...

14 Ambassador Rudolf Thorning-Petersen, "Report of the Mission of the Personal Representative of the Chairman in Office of the OSCE to the Republic of Belarus," April 29, 1997.

MINSK, April 27. /TASS/. Belarus may soon introduce the capital punishment for attempted acts of terrorism. "A bill on amendments to the Criminal Code has been passed in two readings," the ...