Belarus

Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, who said a feud with team officials made her feel she could not safely return home, has arrived in Austria. She’s expected to travel to Poland, which granted her a humanitarian visa

A Belarusian Olympic sprinter who had a public feud with officials from her team at the Tokyo Games says that they “made it clear” she would face punishment if she returned home to an autocratic government.

A Belarusian activist who ran a group in Ukraine helping Belarusians fleeing persecution has been found dead in the Ukrainian capital

Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya waged and lost a legal fight to run in the 200 meters at the Olympics while she was also seeking a humanitarian visa to leave the Tokyo Games safely

An activist group says a Belarusian sprinter is applying for a visa at Polish embassy in Tokyo and plans to seek asylum in Poland after alleging that officials tried to send her home from Japan

A court in Belarus has convicted a journalist of insulting the president in messages in a deleted chat group and sentenced him to 1 1/2 years in prison, the Belarusian Association of Journalists says

An activist group says a Belarusian sprinter is applying for a visa at Polish embassy in Tokyo and plans to seek asylum in Poland after alleging that officials tried to send her home from Japan

Belarus sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya will reportedly seek asylum in Poland after her coaches tried to force her onto a plane back to her home country Sunday. The sprinter, who had been set to compete in the 200m on Monday, said the Belarusian staff was trying to punish her for speaking publicly against her coaches on Instagram and feared for her...

A Belarus track sprinter has alleged her Olympic team tried to remove her from Japan.

Krystsina Tsimanouskaya said on social media and claimed in comments to international reporters that she was being forcibly repatriated to Belarus

The extraordinary diversion of a commercial airliner was described by some European Union leaders as a “hijacking.”

Russia is extending its influence into Belarus and could use it as leverage against NATO countries, Gitanas Nausėda, the president of Lithuania told CNBC in an exclusive interview Monday.

Germany’s Dax was weighed down by Deutsche Bank after reports that the Fed said it was concerned about the lender’s anti-money laundering practices.

Many people who want to leave Belarus to avoid the growing repression under authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko now find themselves increasingly cornered.

NBC producer Matthew Bodner says stopping a flight to arrest someone for their speech could have a chilling effect. Authorities in Belarus, a European country bordering Russia and Ukraine, grounded a flight and removed 2 passengers: dissident journalist Roman Protasevich and his girlfriend Sofia Sapega. Protasevich was known for criticizing Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, who took power after a contested election.

The authoritarian president of Belarus has lashed out at Europe for trying to “strangle” his country with sanctions over the diversion of a passenger jet

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko on Wednesday launched a tirade against what he described as “ill-wishers” who were trying to “strangle” his country.

A commercial airliner flying from Greece to Lithuania was forced to make a sudden emergency landing in Belarus after pilots were told there was a bomb on board. The TEN looks at the international incident the airline’s CEO called a “state-sponsored hijacking.”

Russia has been steadily increasing its power and influence over its neighbor Belarus.

Belarus’ isolation is deepening as commercial planes avoid its airspace, the European Union works up new sanctions and a senior U.N. official says he is concerned for the welfare of an opposition journalist arrested in Minsk after his plane was diverted there