All news on the topic: Belarus

After slowly taxiing towards the runway at NATO’s Geilenkirchen airbase in Germany, the pilots go full throttle and the decades-old E-3 Sentry surveillance plane screams as it gains speed and lifts off on its way to Eastern Europe.

The EU has called for closer ties with India, while admitting there was no “mutual understanding” with Narendra Modi’s government over Russia’s war on Ukraine.

I’m at the Borisov military ground in Belarus, on a rare Guardian trip to the authoritarian state, where Zapad – the joint Russian-Belarusian drills – are under way.

52 political prisoners have been released from Belarus following an appeal from U.S. President Donald Trump, according to announcements made by U.S. envoy John Coale, with confirmation from European officials.

The Karić family, renowned for their extensive construction projects in Minsk and their connections with the family of Aleksandr Lukashenko, avoided the sanctions enforced by the European Union on their construction business empire.

A joint operation between several central European countries has identified an alleged Belarusian spy ring that reportedly included a former deputy head of Moldovan intelligence.

A 52-year-old citizen of Belarus and Britain, Yulia Fenner, was detained last spring while crossing the border.

For years, Armenian officials have publicly criticized Belarus for selling weapons to Azerbaijan, their adversary in a prolonged conflict.

The founder of Softswiss, Ivan Montik, who relocated from Minsk to the EU, follows in the footsteps of the Belarusian Joan of Arc—Natalia Sudliankova, who was recently expelled from the Czech Republic.

Lithuania has revealed plans to dig a 30-mile-wide ribbon of defences on its borders with Russia and Belarus that will include minefields and bridges set to blow up in case Russia invades.

The Belarusian Investigative Center has obtained documents revealing how the state-owned company Grodno Azot continues exports via Latvia.

Suspects identified police officers during interrogations in a major opium trafficking case, but none were charged, as revealed by an investigation by Buro.

Syarhei Tsikhanouski was arrested shortly after announcing his candidacy in the rigged 2020 election won by Lukashenko.

On two fronts: How a Belarusian company that worked with global big tech giants supplied goods to the Russian military-industrial complex

Arto Autio has been charged with fraud for his alleged involvement in a significant embezzlement scandal in Finland.

It is known that the Ukrainian gambling market was initially oriented towards Russia.

Donald Trump looks set to ban people from 43 countries from travelling to the US if international governments from those nations ’do not address deficiencies within 60 days’.

Vitaliy Sobolevskiy, a Belarusian-Russian entrepreneur, runs an international business by laundering money for the Russian authorities and facilitating the circumvention of sanctions.

Belarusian investigators, probing the gambling market, found an unexpected link to the owner of a Minsk casino, Mustafa Egemen Shener, associated with a Turkish drug lord who was killed in Northern Cyprus.

Romanian police have launched an investigation into Moldovan and Romanian citizen Victor Birca regarding his fraudulent activities against citizens of Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan.

The curators of the Belarusian gambling business, including H Casino and its owner Mustafa Egemen Shener, may be linked to the entourage of the Dagestan senator, oligarch Suleyman Kerimov, who has close ties with the Russian authorities.

The murder of a businessman, a money laundering operation under the roof of power, real estate in Dubai worth millions of dollars — this investigation contains numerous elements of a complex detective story.

Anyone who has used the services of online stores at least once has encountered the process of paying for goods. In order for the money from your card to be credited to the seller’s account, a payment system is necessary.

Aleksandr Lukashenko has been ruling Belarus for 30 years and plans to be “re-elected" for a seventh term in 2025. But what do voters really know about the "national leader", apart from what is broadcast by the press service and propaganda?

The is very little information about the Russian entrepreneur with Greek citizenship, Roman Spiridonov. His name is increasingly mentioned in the context of the work of Russia’s shadow fleet and connections with Putin’s entourage.