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Despite being freed by the Belarusian dictatorship, Nobel laureate Ales Bialiatski says the West should recognize hostage diplomacy as a dead end. Ales Bialiatski, founder of the human rights center “Viasna” and 2022 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Vilnius, Lithuania. December 18, 2025. Photo: Belsat “Does Belarusian give us more sausage?” It is a question the Belarusian dictator Aliaksandr Lukashenka once put to his own people. What does the Belarusian language actually give you

The 21st of May marks the International Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners in Belarus. We look at how the regime in Belarus has...

Censorship , repression, and ideological indoctrination are increasingly shaping the information landscape in both Russia and Belarus. In...

Producing and airing so-called ‘repentance videos’ – in which political detainees supposedly confess, regret, or denounce their former...

On 26 January 2025, Belarusian dictator Alyaksandr Lukashenka announced his ‘overwhelming’ victory in his seventh presidential election,...

Four years have passed since the rigged 9 August 2020 presidential election in Belarus. Ordinary people are labelled traitors and...

One of our earlier analyses touched upon the Sovietisation of Belarusian schools that have lately been mostly renamed after Soviet...

The public space in Belarus is heavily controlled and the human rights situation remains dire. We have previously reported on large-scale...

It is now three years since Belarusian authorities manipulated, rigged and falsified the 9 August 2020 presidential elections in that...