A bus carrying 14 political prisoners with bags over their heads hurtled through the lush Belarusian countryside one morning last month, its destination unknown. Five years after President Alexander ...

As the world goes into lockdown, authoritarian president of Belarus , Alexander Lukashenko is urging citizens to drink vodka, go to saunas and return to work. The country of 9.5 million — between ...

MINSK, 20 November (BelTA) – The film “Time chose us” aired by the Belarus 1 TV channel explains why vodka became an informal measure of purchasing power in 1991, BelTA reports. The average salary in ...

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, who once touted vodka and saunas to ward off Covid, said on Monday that schoolchildren in the ex-Soviet state should harvest potatoes to be healthy. Lukashenko ...