Belarus protests security for students
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The Foreign Ministry issued a formal protest on Friday over security for Belarusians participating in student programs in the United States after two students were killed.
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Police on Wednesday freed seven young people who were detained the day before during protests against a much-criticized referendum that cleared the way for Belarus' authoritarian president to stay in power indefinitely, Russian media reported.
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Belarusian police detained opposition leader Alexander Milinkevich on Thursday during a visit to a province where he was gathering signatures in support of candidates for local elections, his spokesman said.
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Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, 50, is seen during a news conference in Minsk, Monday, Oct. 18, 2004. According to the Central Elections Commission a preliminary tally of ballots from Sunday&#39;s election
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Belarusian authorities have barred dozens of opposition candidates from running for parliament in next month's elections, a move opposition leaders condemned as part of President Alexander Lukashenko's ...
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The president of Belarus, confident of victory in a referendum on Sunday to extend his rule, promised to serve his people better if they voted &quot;yes&quot; and told the West to keep criticism of his rule to itself.
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MOSCOW - Tens of thousands of people answered a government call and rallied outside the Kremlin on Tuesday in a show of solidarity against terrorism, nearly a week after militants seized a school in southern Russia in a standoff that claimed more than 350 lives, many of them children.    Mourners in the grief-stricken city of Beslan lowered caskets into the damp earth in a third day of burials from the siege, which officials have blamed on Chechens and other Islamic militants...
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France has urged Belarus not to limit the freedom of Belarussian children to travel abroad, Interfax-West news agency said Friday.
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The Belarusian opposition on Thursday held a series of unauthorized protest actions across the country.
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Belarus, its leaders shunned by much of the Western world, has snapped back at moves by the European Union and United States to restrict the movements of its senior officials and threatened to respond in kind.
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Belarusians were set to cast their ballots Sunday in a constitutional referendum to decide whether their authoritarian leader can run for a third term, amid Western fears of a rigged vote and further diplomatic ...
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The United Nations demanded Belarus free an American arrested while working on a United Nations project in the ex-Soviet republic, but the country's spy service on Thursday insisted the man was not protected by diplomatic immunity.
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Plainclothes agents broke up a Valentine's Day march by opposition activists expressing pro-European views, detaining about 10 people in the capital of the tightly controlled ex-Soviet republic of Belarus.
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Belarus President Aleksander Lukashenko,  says there will be no people's revolutions in his country.
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Some 5,000 students have protested in the Ukrainian capital Kiev against what they allege were falsified results from Sunday&#39;s presidential election.
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MINSK, Belarus  - Belarussian President Alexander  Lukashenko said Monday voters had shown overwhelming support  for his plan to stay in power, but hundreds took to the streets  to protest against what they said was a rigged referendum.
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Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko  denied on Friday there was religious intolerance in the  ex-Soviet republic, a week after Israel accused him of  anti-Semitism.