MINSK -- A court in Minsk has sentenced a blogger to 18 months in a maximum security penal colony for her participation in protests against the government of authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: Belarusian opposition blogger Roman Protasevich was pardoned on Monday (22 May) - just weeks after he was sentenced to ...

A Belarusian blogger has been sentenced to three years in prison on charge of "insulting" Alyaksandr Lukashenka by writing in a post that the country's authoritarian ruler was "illegitimate" amid a ...

The charges against Matolka included attempting an unconstitutional seizure of power, organising mass unrest, inciting social hatred, insulting and slandering the president, spreading disinformation, ...

A fresh-faced 22-year-old blogger is using nothing more than his keyboard to run the main communications hub for protesters in Belarus as they mount an unprecedented challenge to the regime of ...

MINSK, 29 March (BelTA) - Public figure and Latvian blogger Roman Samul, in an interview with BelTA, compared living conditions in Latvia and Belarus, opportunities for families, child benefits, ...

Belarus has moved the jailed opposition blogger Roman Protasevich and his girlfriend Sofia Sapega from a detention facility to house arrest. The pair have been in jail since May 23 when Belarusian ...

MINSK, 22 May (BelTA) – UK authorities advise against visiting Belarus, Will Eggerton, a blogger from the UK, told BelTA. "Our country has a list [of restricted destinations]. Belarus and Russia are ...