The recent statement by Oleg Romanov, chairman of the newly created party “Belaya Rus”, gives serious reason to think – not only to Lukashenko’s inner circle, but to a much larger number, probably to tens, if not hundreds of thousands of...
On March 23, the Canadian Permanent Representative to the OSCE delivered a joint statement on behalf of delegations from 38 participating states calling for invoking the Moscow Mechanism for Belarus. Kristina Rikhter, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya’s advisor on legal...
Today, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya started her working visit to London. She visited the Foreign Office, where she met with Foreign Secretary James Cleverly and Europe Minister Leo Docherty. The following issues were discussed during the meeting: Repressions in...
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya’s speech at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels, 2023: “Vice-President Margrethe Vestager,Secretary General Marija Buric, Thank you for inviting me to take part in this discussion, and many thanks to Karel...
15-year-old brother of the admin of the Community of Railway Workers of Belarus is still held hostage by Lukashenka’s KGB. The boy was sent to the pre-trial detention center on Valadarskaha street in Minsk, he is charged under a criminal case with a possible...
The Viasna Human Rights Center tells why law enforcement agencies prosecute Belarusians returning home from abroad, what kinds of sentences the detainees receive, and what conditions people who’d like to return to Belarus need to meet. According to Viasna,...
Thijs Reuten, the member of the European Parliament, Dutch politician from the Labor Party, reacted to the report of RFE/RL journalist Rickard Jozwiak, in which he said that the new package of EU sanctions will not target the regime in Belarus...
On November 24, the European Parliament voted on a resolution condemning the repression of the democratic opposition and civil society in Belarus and Belarus’ active involvement in the Russian aggression against Ukraine. The resolution endorses the...
We, Belarusians, have been hearing the West repeating these words for more than two years, but still do not understand what they mean. We do not understand how long is this “necessary”? How long will it take? Because it really...
You can never be concerned enough to stop the war against Ukraine. To stop mass repressions in Belarus. To stop a dictator. We have such an expression in Belarus: “there is no bottom”. Belarusians use it when something happens in our country that was...
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya: “The regime is exploiting the food crisis now, just like it exploited the migration crisis last year. Lukashenka offers a false dilemma, hunger or human rights, for the West to decide. Such an arrangement with him would be detrimental...
“Today, the regime in Belarus signed the decree on death penalty for “attempted acts of terrorism”, and on the same day, reports came that sales of Orwell’s 1984 were allegedly banned. In the future Belarus, when flashing back to this time, we will...
On its web-site, the White House has published an official statement upon G7 leaders online summit. “We will spare no effort to hold President Putin and the architects and accomplices of this aggression, including the Lukashenko regime in Belarus, accountable...
Head of the NAM Pavel Latushka held a meeting with the Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Poland Jakub Duerr. During the meeting, the issue of the possible participation of the Armed Forces of Belarus in the ground operation in the war against Ukraine unleashed...
The Council of Europe suspends all contacts with Lukashenka’s regime because of its involvement in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The regime’s representatives will no longer be able to take part in meetings of the Council of Europe or its bodies, even as observers. At...
As part of the anti-war movement against Putin and Lukashenka’s aggression against Ukraine, the NAM has initiated a campaign to suspend foreign companies and service providers in Belarus. Right now, foreign companies are leaving the Russian...
Lukashenka publicly confessed to committing war crimes — Pavel Latushka gave an interview to the Ukrainian edition of NV. Russian information blow We are faced with the most serious information impact of the Russian media...
Journalist Dzmitry Gurnevich published a reasoned response to those who indiscriminately blame the Belarusian nation for acting in complicity with Putin in the attack on Ukraine. We present his arguments in abbreviated form. There has been no legitimate government in...
