Tag: Belarus

Source link www.rferl.org Human rights watchdog Freedom House says global Internet freedom has declined dramatically in Belarus, where last year’s disputed presidential election led the authorities to repeatedly restrict access to the Internet, increase social media surveillance, and detain and use "deadly force” against online activists. According to the ...

Source link www.rferl.org Russia and Belarus will be the site of what could be the biggest military exercises in Europe in decades, which comes as Alyaksandr Lukashenka moves to integrate Belarus even closer not only militarily but politically with Russia, triggering fears he is bargaining away the country's sovereignty ...

Source link www.rferl.org Amnesty International is urging Poland to allow entry and provide humanitarian assistance to a group of 32 people from Afghanistan who have been held at the border between Poland and Belarus without proper food, clean water, shelter, and medicine for two weeks. Afghanistan In Turmoil: Full ...

Officials said Rajnath Singh and Viktor Khrenin deliberated on bilateral defence cooperation and touched upon regional security challenges Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on July 28 held bilateral talks with his Belarusian counterpart Lt. Gen. Viktor Khrenin on the sidelines of a conclave of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in ...

International airlines and federal aviation authorities have reacted strongly to Belarus' recent interception of a Greece to Lithuania flight, with one independent monitor raising the risk level of the Eastern European country's airspace.But at a Level 3 ranking, Belarus is not the most dangerous nation in the world, according ...

ISTANBUL It drew international outrage when Belarusian authorities grounded a passenger aircraft carrying an opposition journalist who was flying from Greece to Lithuania through Belarus' airspace.But this was not the first time when a country tried to arrest a dissident on board. History shows planes are not safe havens for ...

China-assisted railway projects in the region, like the Belt and Road Initiative in general, have been widely described as China’s ‘debt-trap diplomacy’Amidst the prolonged face-off between Indian and Chinese militaries on the country’s northern borders, China’s announcement on the side-lines of its parliamentary annual session about the construction of ...

Source link www.rferl.org Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's time as an Amnesty International "prisoner of conscience" was short-lived -- but not because he was released from detention. Navalny received the designation on January 17 following his arrest at a Moscow airport by Russian authorities who said he had violated ...

Source link www.rferl.org Russian President Vladimir Putin has said "attempts to exert foreign pressure" in Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, and Moldova are "unacceptable." Opening an online summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) on November 10, Putin said that Belarus was "under pressure from external forces." Mass protests in Belarus demanding ...

#Pakistan News Belarus has been gripped by unprecedented youth and women-led protests since President Lukashenko claimed victory in an August election. Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya and European Parliament President David Sassoli in Brussels Belgium September 21, 2020. (Reuters) The European Parliament has awarded Belarus' democratic opposition its annual ...