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Belarus Court Gives Opposition Activists Lengthy Sentences
Maria Kolesnikova and Maxim Znak had been on trial behind closed doors
Belarus’s Exiled Opposition Leader Says President Lukashenko Is Operating With ‘Impunity’ After Journalist Arrest
When exiled Belarus opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya took a Ryanair flight from Athens to Lithuania’s capital Vilnius, she wasn’t overly concerned about her safety. She couldn’t have predicted that just a week later her home country would scramble a fighter jet to force that same passenger flight to land and arrest a dissident journalist. “We…
A Bomb Threat and a MiG Fighter: How Belarus ‘Hijacked’ a Commercial Plane to Snatch a Government Critic
Raman Pratasevich was seized from the Ryanair flight after Belarusian officials ordered to it to change course and land in Minsk
How a Belarusian Teacher and Stay-at-Home Mom Came to Lead a National Revolt
On a hot summer day last August, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya was pacing up and down her empty apartment in Minsk, the capital of Belarus in Central Europe, her life—and her country—in turmoil. With her husband in jail, she had sent her two small children out of the country, to safety, and she now faced a stark…