A senior official spoke of the unprecedented exodus from Russia in the late 2000s for the first time. Back in January, Accounts Chamber Chairman Sergei Stepashin cited the following figure: 1.25 million members of the economically active...

Today the trial of former Belarusian presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov resumes. He has been charged with organising mass disturbances (Article 293 Chapter 2 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus) and faces up to 15 years in...

For the last couple of days, the town of Fukushima (the capital of the Fukushima Prefecture) has been covered in fog. Actually, it is not fog – it is a smoke haze hanging over the town and its vicinity. In Japanese horror movies, such a...

The locals keep their cool and do not succumb to panic, although the same cannot be said for the tens of thousands of foreigners in Tokyo. They mob the Narita Airport, hang around the booking office and their diplomatic missions demanding...

Even though his official vacation is long over, he is still not back from Krasnaya Polyana. Though, well-informed sources told me that Alexander Lukashenko was staying on at the resort on some important business. Dmitry Medvedev and...

The situation on the Lithuania-Belarus border is getting aggravated. The scandal on the level of nature protection departments occurred due to the forest beavers. The beavers cut down several tens of trees and built a dam on the Kotra...