Belarus
Lithuania extends state of emergency at Belarus border
VILNIUS (Reuters) - Lithuania's parliament on Tuesday extended a state of emergency at the country's border with Belarus and at camps hosting migrants who arrived from there until Jan. 15.…
Factbox: Ten points of tension between Putin and Biden
(Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin will speak by video link on Tuesday. Since their Geneva summit in June, the list of contentious issues between…
Hundreds more migrants leave Belarus on Iraq-bound flight
MOSCOW (Reuters) - More than 400 migrants who had travelled to Belarus seeking to cross the border into the EU flew home on Saturday on an Iraqi Airways plane bound…
Belarus state airline cuts fleet by nearly half due to sanctions
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Belarusian state-run airline Belavia said on Friday it had been forced to reduce its fleet of planes by almost half after the European Union targeted it with…
Belarus says it will retaliate against sanctions, faces “unprecedented pressure”
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Belarus said it would retaliate after the United States and its allies imposed sanctions against dozens of individuals and entities there, and it complained that its economy was…
Belarus migrant crisis disrupts goods supplies to Russia
By Gleb Stolyarov and Darya Korsunskaya MOSCOW (Reuters) - The migrant crisis on the Belarus-Polish border has caused logistics problems for Russian food producers, who are suffering losses and risk…
Canada joins U.S, EU and Britain in imposing new Belarus sanctions
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada imposed new sanctions on Belarusian officials and entities in coordination with international partners on Thursday to protest against what it called attacks on human rights and…
Belarusian KGB set up fake social media accounts to inflame migrant crisis, Meta says
By Matthias Williams KYIV (Reuters) - Facebook's parent company Meta has linked the Belarusian KGB to the setting up of dozens of fake social media accounts of people posing as…
Belarus announces military drills with Russia near Ukraine border
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Belarus on Monday announced joint military drills with close ally Russia on its southern border with Ukraine and accused the NATO military alliance of building up offensive…
Lithuania says Belarus will keep testing West, urges NATO rethink
By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS (Reuters) -Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said on Sunday that the NATO military alliance needed to adjust its stance towards Belarus, whose military, he said, was becoming…
‘It’s all lies’; migrants stuck at Polish border feel cheated by people smugglers
By Yara Abi Nader and Joanna Plucinska ORLA/BIALYSTOK, Poland (Reuters) - Syrian friends Anas Kanaan, 34, and Mouein al-Hadi, 36, were told by people smugglers that they would easily be…
‘Go through. Go,’ Lukashenko tells migrants at Polish border
By Kacper Pempel and Maria Kiselyova BRUZGI, Belarus/MOSCOW (Reuters) -Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko told migrants stranded at the border with Poland on Friday that his country would help them to…
