Irina Khalip, our special correspondent in Minsk, used to write a regular column called Candidate for First Lady. At the time, of course, nobody knew that she and her husband, Belarusian presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov, would end up...

All these months I’ve been trying to understand why I was first kept at the pre-trial detention centre and then under house arrest. Why keep a woman with a child under lock and key? But after my husband told the judges they had threatened...

It’s every night that the Byelorussian TV starts the evening with affirming that Belarus is the only “island of stability” in the raging sea of the worsening global crisis. That affirmation is followed with frightening pictures from the...

Among the persons non grata remaining are Lydia Ermoshina, the chair of the Central Elective Commission, also people involved in kidnappings and murders of political opponents to Lukashenko: interior minister Vladimir Naumov, ex-minister...

There have not been similar elections in Belarus. It’s not because the previous ones of four and eight years ago were different – everything was just the same. But this time, everything that was happening around the elections, it reminded...

Tanya Kozyro, 16, a schoolgirl from the city of Borisov, has asked for political shelter during her rest in the US under the program of Chernobyl Children’s Project. Tatiana has been visiting California for 9 years and staying at same...