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Is a Putin ally in eastern Europe making a cautious overture to the West?Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus is considering easing political repression and granting pardons as a strategic move to improve relations wi...
Five Nobel Peace laureates who won from jailNarges Mohammadi, an Iranian rights campaigner, has become the fifth Nobel Peace Prize laureate to win the award while being imprisoned. Sh...
The weaknesses weighing on Vladimir Putin after Wagner mutinyPrigozhin was the most strident voice for those inside Russia criticising failures in the invasion and the strategies used by Defence Minis...
Russia says preparing transfer of Wagner hardware to armyPutin on Monday accused Ukraine and its Western allies of wanting Russians to "kill each other" during the revolt, which stunned the countr...
Russian Mutiny: Is it the beginning of the end of President Vladimir Putin?The recent revolt by the Wagner mercenary group has exposed weaknesses in the position of Russian President Vladimir Putin, raising questio...
Belarus strongman sows future peril with Wagner PR successBelarus leader Alexander Lukashenko scored a propaganda victory by brokering the deal which staved off the threat of an internal armed conf...
Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, a call to arms for UkraineThe CCL has documented war crimes committed by Russian troops in Ukraine for the past eight years, crimes for which Matviichuk wants to see...
Putin seeks escalation with Ukraine missile blitz: ExpertsAccording to Ukrainian authorities, 41 out of 75 missiles were intercepted, but the remainder struck cities around the country, including t...
Russia launches biggest air strikes since start of Ukraine war in revenge for Crimea bridgeExplosions were reported in Lviv, Ternopil and Zhytomyr in western Ukraine, Dnipro and Kremenchuk in central Ukraine, Zaporizhzhia in the s...
Ales Bialiatski: Veteran rights defender in authoritarian BelarusHe spent his 60th birthday in prison on September 25, as he did his 50th, but won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in the wake of historic d...
Who is Ales Bialiatski, the Noble Peace Prize 2022's winner?A prominent figure in Belarus, Ales Baliatski, is a human rights activist. He is 60 years old and has founded Viasna (Spring) Human Rights ...
Poland issues highest number of residence permits; Indians top benefactorsThe report shows that Poland issued over 967,345 permits in 2021, the highest annual figure ever. The figure was a third of all permits in ...
Russia has reached the point of no return in its conflict with UkraineOn the surface, the crisis appears to be artificial in that there is no obvious NATO threat to the Russians. But why have Russian President...
US President Joe Biden imposes sanctions against Belarus' Lukashenko regimeAmong those the Treasury Department cites in the new sanctions are Belaruskali OAO, which is one of Belarus's largest state-owned enterpris...
EU cuts air links with Belarus over forced plane landingStrongman Lukashenko sparked international outrage by dispatching a fighter jet Sunday to intercept a Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius...
Belarus scrambles jet to force plane to land and arrests opponent, sparking furyAuthorities in Belarus scrambled a fighter jet and flagged what turned out to be a false bomb alert to force a Ryanair plane to land on Sun...
Pakistan launches fresh drive to gather support for NSG bidSpecial Assistant to the PM on Foreign Affairs Syed Tariq Fatemi is undertaking visits to Belarus and Kazakhstan from August 23 to 27 as a ...