Human rights in Belarus
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The government of Belarus is criticized for human rights violations and persecution of non-governmental organisations, independent journalists, national minorities, and opposition politicians. In a te
The national flag of 1918 and 1991–1995 has become a symbol of the opposition to the regime of president Alexander Lukashenko.
2020 Belarusian protests
Katsiaryna Barysevich is a staff correspondent for the independent news site Tut.By. She was arrested on November 2020.
Belsat TV journalist Katsyaryna Andreeva was sentenced to 8 years in prison in 2022.
Belarus
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Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and
Stamp with the Cross of St. Euphrosyne by Lazar Bohsha from 1992
Napoleon's Grande Armée retreating after his invasion of Russia and crossing the Berezina river (near Barysaw, Belarus)
The first government ("activists") of the Belarusian People's Republic (BNR, Беларуская Народная Рэспубліка), 1918. Sitting, left to right: Aliaksandar Burbis, Jan Sierada, Jazep Varonka, Vasil Zacharka. Standing, left to right: Arkadź Smolič, Pyotra Krecheuski, Kastuś Jezavitaŭ, Anton Ausianik, Liavon Zayats.
Meeting in the Kurapaty woods, 1989, where between 1937 and 1941 from 30,000 to 250,000 people, including Belarusian intelligentsia members, were murdered by the NKVD during the Great Purge