In his first big interview after his release, Belarussian opposition leader Siarhei Tsikhanouski tells DW about the ...

About 2,000 Belarussians staged one of the country's largest protests in recent years on Friday to voice their opposition to a law that imposes a tax on those not in full-time employment.

It was a brief flicker of protest in a country where darkness has long since set in. Several hundred Belarussians risked police wrath and staged a rare demonstration in downtown Minsk yesterday ...

Thousands took to the streets in Belarus over the weekend to protest against a tax on those deemed to be doing too little work, despite government concessions after a first wave of demonstrations.

MINSK, Belarus It was the middle of the night when security services stormed the headquarters of Charter 97, an opposition Web site that is a rare window here onto a world beyond the control of ...

“Chernobyl” was a common noun for Belarussians born after 1986, before we learned it was the name of a place. It was the explanation given for one girl at my school for having six fingers on ...

A Polish court jails the organizers of an anti-war stunt that saw a dozen people strip naked last year at the former German Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau before one of them slaughtered a lamb.

Belarussians voted overwhelmingly to scrap presidential term limits, the Central Elections Commission said, allowing the authoritarian leader of the ex-Soviet republic to seek a new term in 2006.