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Should Belarus's strongman really be allowed to enter the EU? On 16 September, I was sitting in a tiny café in Vilnius with journalist-friends who had travelled from...

Russia wants to remove Alyaksandr Lukashenka as Belarus's president. Belarus had been through numerous economic wars with Russia before, but once the Kremlin sent its Chief...

EU foreign ministers confident of talks on human rights with officials in Minsk in the near future The European Union has suspended travel bans against top officials from...

The EU is right to engage with Alyaksandr Lukashenka, the president of Belarus, but it needs to enforce its conditions to achieve progress. Javier Solana's visit to Minsk on...

‘Wind of change' in the environment fails to bring transparency to Belarus's parliamentary elections, monitors say. Belarus's parliamentary elections, in which the...

The slow evolution under way in Belarus may strike chords with old Franco-watchers. When, in November 2006, the EU set out 12 demands that Belarus should meet in the fields...

European Commission calls for release of other political prisoners. The EU has welcomed a decision by the Belarusian authorities to release the jailed opposition leader...

The EU's pro-democracy television programmes for Belarus are not reaching enough of the population, activists complained this week. Since EU-funded broadcasting began on 26...

In July 1994, just days after his election as president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko addressed the public solemnly and said: "I promise you there will be no...

Belarusaitis used to be a rare affliction. One symptom is visiting Minsk frequently, a clean and spacious city, but not distinguished by its aesthetic attraction, to put it...