Alexander Lukashenka

Characterizing migrants as “armed bands” shapes the legal vocabulary - with potentially dire consequences. A call for empathy and restraint in legal discourse.

Is Belarus violating its bilateral and human rights commitments at the border?

Belarus has been criticized for using desperate migrants to pressure EU borders. But is it breaking international law by doing so?

President Biden hoped for a more stable and predictable relationship with Russia. Time to deal with reality instead.

The US and the EU must act swiftly, before more people are hurt or killed and before more damage is done to the credibility of democracy.

Continued violence by the Belarus strongman against dissidents and opponents demands a forceful response from the West.

Lukashenka is escalating his repression, defying the West, even as democratically elected leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya visit Washington.

The case of Roman Protasevich is nothing more than a step – albeit unprecedented and shocking – in the incremental use by States, across the globe, of legislation to counter…

An appeal hearing in Minsk offers a chance for the court to rectify an injustice that illustrates how reporters have been targeted for abuse..

It is used in some quarters as a tool of constructive political resistance, and in others abused to spread disinformation and illicit content.

The US should work with the EU to isolate Lukashenko and his lieutenants with targeted sanctions, and facilitate a peaceful transition with new elections.