Belarus, under global pressure after it forced a Ryanair plane carrying an opposition journalist to land in Minsk, is to introduce "discriminatory" trade barriers against a range of goods from Ukraine, a Ukrainian deputy minister said on Friday

The detainee is facing deportation

Minsk and Kyiv approved a plan on border demarcation for 2018-2026 earlier this year

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko met on Friday to discuss trade and economic cooperation between their countries, Poroshenko's press service said

How agriculture is developing in Belarus

Ukrainian citizen Pavlo Sharoyko, who was sentenced to eight years in prison on espionage charges in May, could soon be released

Why are Minsk and Warsaw still avoiding bitter historical polemic

How have Russian counter-sanctions impacted Belarusian exports and imports?

Alyaksandr Lukashenka has recognized the danger emanating from Russia. So far, it’s been covert, but the signs are serious

Why the Maidan in Ukraine has discouraged Belarusians from protests against their authorities

On the eve of the Men’s Ice Hockey World Championship to take place on May 9-25, numerous opposition activists were arrested. As of May 9, at least 28 political inmates are kept at prison isolators in Minsk

Ever more Belarusians are imagining how the Crimean scenario would look in their own country – they don’t like it.

Representatives of Belarus SMEs launched the collection of signatures for Belarus to leave the Customs Union and hold a warning strike on June 27. The decision was taken at the forum of entrepreneurs on June 24 in Minsk, said Anatol Shumchanka, head of the Perspektyva republican union.

Yanukovych could try to usurp power using the Belarus scenario to offset his plummeting popularity and growing pressure from abroad

The Foreign Ministers of the Germany, Poland, Sweden and the UK have expressed concern about continuing repression in Belarus.

Cheap fuel may cost Belarus its sovereignty. Is Ukraine next?

What surprises a Belarusian journalist in Ukraine

Alexander Lukashenka’s political repressions are driving more Belarusians to Ukraine

Siargei Vysotsky, leader of the Belarusian Freedom Party, speaks about Alexander Lukashenko’s dead end, anti-Russian sentiments and clerical servility

Vyacheslav Sivchyk: “Belarusians are treated as people who don’t have any influence in their own country”

Hans-Georg Wieck, ex-chief of the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) speaks about the situation in Belarus, Germany’s dream of having a stable Russia, and advice he gave to Eduard Shevardnadze.

Academician Alexander Vaitovich speaks about mass repressions in Belarus and the change of the president’s course