Belarus votes in orchestrated election all but certain to extend the rule of authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko
Belarus’s Strong-Arm Leader, Aleksandr Lukashenko, Cruises to Re-election
Alert: Belarus votes in orchestrated election all but certain to extend the rule of authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko
Belarus votes in orchestrated election all but certain to extend the rule of authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko.
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Estonia does not exclude Russian provocations due to disconnection from Russian energy system
Estonia has admitted that the Russian Federation may arrange provocations during the disconnection of the Estonian power system from the Russian one. Source: Estonian Interior Minister Lauri Läänemets,
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Saboteurs Suspected of Cutting Yet Another Baltic Sea Cable as Three Ex-Soviet Republics Move To Join Europe’s Electricity Grid
The attacks come as Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania prepare to cut on February 8 their electricity links to Russia and Belarus.
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Belarus faces another election criticized as a 'democracy insult'
At 8 AM in Belarus, the main day of voting organized by the regime began, during which Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power for 31 years, seeks his seventh term in office. The opposition calls this vote a "no-choice election" due to the lack of real opponents and any prospects for a democratic process.
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Lithuania to dismantle power lines connecting to Russia and Belarus after withdrawal from BRELL
Lithuania is going to dismantle power transmission lines connecting it with Russia’s Kaliningrad Region and Belarus after it leaves
Britain, Canada respond to Belarus' 'sham' presidential election with sanctions
Britain and Canada have imposed sanctions targeting the regime of Belarus' dictator president, Alexander Lukashenko, following his disputed election over the weekend to a seventh term.
An imprisoned Nobel laureate underscores human rights abuses in Belarus
Ales Bialiatski, a human rights advocate who won the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, is serving a 10-year prison sentence in Belarus and is one of hundreds of its political prisoners
EU rejects election in Belarus and threatens new sanctions
BRUSSELS -- The European Union rejected the election in Belarus on Sunday as illegitimate and threatened new sanctions. Belarus held an orchestrated vote virtually guaranteed to give 70-year-old autocratic President Alexander Lukashenko yet another term on top of his three decades in power.
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Silence and suspicion on Belarus's border with Ukraine
Near a border checkpoint between Belarus and Ukraine, anti-tank spikes and concrete pyramids block what was once a bustling road between two peaceful neighbours.
EU sanctions 3 Russian military hackers for attacking Estonia
The European Union on Monday sanctioned three officers of a Russian military intelligence unit accused of being behind a series of cyberattacks targeting Estonia in 2020.
Lukashenko extends three-decade Belarus rule, West denounces vote
Belarus autocrat Alexander Lukashenko, in power since 1994, won a seventh consecutive term in office Sunday in an election denounced by the European Union and the exiled opposition.
‘Europe’s last dictator’ Lukashenko extends 3-decade rule in Belarus
EU said it will not lift sanctions against Alexander Lukashenko's government following 'sham' presidential elections Belarus's autocrat Alexander Lukashenko, in power since 1994, won re-election Sunday in an election without real competition and slammed by the European Union and much of the West as a "sham",