Tag: Alexander Lukashenko

• Friday, February 18th 2022 - 20:51 UTC

  Sanctions are coming up regardless, Putin says

  

  Russian President Vladimir Putin Friday downplayed the seriousness of threats from Western powers in case of an Ukraine invasion. He said the Western countries would impose sanctions on Russia anyhow.

• Monday, May 24th 2021 - 09:10 UTC

  Belarus forces commercial flight to land so that dissident can be arrested

  

  The Government of Belarus Sunday forced a Ryanair Boeing 737 en route from Athens, Greece to Vilnius, Lituania which was flying over their territory to land and make the arrest of 26-year-old dissident journalist Roman Protasevich possible.

• Tuesday, August 18th 2020 - 08:15 UTC

  Belarus dictator facing widespread protests offers to hold new elections and hand over power

  

  Alexander Lukashenko, the leader of Belarus, said on Monday he would be ready to hold new elections and hand over power after a constitutional referendum, an attempt to pacify mass protests and strikes that pose the biggest challenge yet to his rule.

• Saturday, October 10th 2015 - 06:37 UTC

  Nobel literature for lady in love with kind Russia, “not that of Stalin or Putin”

  

  Belarusian writer and dissident Svetlana Alexievich won the 2015 Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday for her work chronicling the horrors of war and life under the repressive Soviet regime.