The acclamation of Alexander Lukashenko as Belarus president for a seventh straight term was confirmed on January 26. The ...

Belarus’s President, Alexander Lukashenko, has just won another landside election in a result the EU is labelling a sham. The ...

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Friday said his government would draw up plans to deport migrants who break the law of the EU country as Poland nears key presidential election in May. On Friday ...

Belarus under Lukashenko has become embroiled in the battle between NATO-backed Western Europe and Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

In late 2024, the EU authorities revealed that 90% of the migrants arriving via Belarus had Russian student or travel visas. The bloc pledged 170 million euros to its eastern members — Lithuania, ...

The migrants, who tend to be men, pay between $8,000 and $12,000 (€7,700 - €11,500) for the journey. Once in Belarus, they are aided by a "facilitator" who brings them closer to the border and gives ...

It’s needed, the government in Warsaw says, because Russia and Belarus are waging a particular kind of hybrid warfare: helping groups of migrants — mostly from Africa or the Middle East — to break ...

Organizations such as Amnesty International have accused the Polish authorities of violating the human rights of refugees and migrants and have criticized "pushbacks" into Belarus. "It is cruel ...

Belarus court sentenced Sergey Tikhanovsky, husband of opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, to 18 years in prison. Over 1,500 migrants are living in a warehouse in Belarus amid the migration ...

Migrants are fleeing Russia and Belarus in search of a better life in the European Union at an accelerated rate, according to the bloc’s border protection agency. The number of migrants crossing ...

Migrants who had been in Belarus near the Belarusian-Polish border have been seen being driven away in the direction of Russia, Colonel Andrzej Stasiulewicz of the Polish Border Guard Service has ...