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Kanstantin Sivtsov of Belarus, racing in the United States for the first time, won the Tour de Georgia while his teammate, New Zealand’s Greg Henderson, won the race’s final stage.Henderson beat Argentina’s Juan Jose Haedo in a final sprint through...
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Relations have soured between the last dictator in Europe and his closest ally after a “milk war” erupted between Belarus and Russia.
Alexander Lukashenko, the...
made popular Jun 15 2009
AP, Rome
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko met with the pope Monday on his first trip to Western Europe since the European Union lifted a travel ban imposed a decade ago...
made popular Apr 27 2009
AP, Luban
The roof has been removed and the windows stripped of their frames and glass. Piece by piece, workers are tearing down the former synagogue where a renowned rabbi...
made popular Apr 24 2009
AP, Bogdanovka
Nikolai Ilyuchik was 11 when his mother first told him how the Nazis killed all the Jewish men in their Belarusian village during World War II.
made popular Mar 17 2009
AP, Grodno
Belarus’ authoritarian president allowed a banned organization of ethnic Poles to meet Sunday for the first time in four years, sending a tentative signal of his...
made popular Mar 15 2009
AP, Minsk
Once again, ethnic Polish activist Andrzej Poczobut expects to be arrested in Belarus, a former Soviet republic whose authoritarian president sees his country’s...
made popular Mar 13 2009
Are these really weird or is it just my presumption, we’ll figure out, but for aeronautical engineers in Belarus these planes are real creations of valued...
made popular Mar 7 2009
AP, Minsk
Russia’s ambassador to Belarus says Moscow will finance Belarus’ first nuclear power plant and construction will begin this year.
made popular Feb 6 2009
AP, Caracas
Venezuela’s state oil company is behind on billions in payments to private oil contractors from Oklahoma to Belarus, some of which have now stopped work, even as...
made popular Feb 6 2009
AP, Moscow
Russia and Belarus will create a new military system to monitor and defend their air space, the Kremlin said Tuesday _ strengthening cooperation between the two uneasy...
made popular Feb 3 2009
AP, Minsk
Belarus’ central bank sharply devalued the Belarusian ruble Friday, allowing the currency to plunge 20 percent to help stop the hemorrhaging of its reserves. The...
made popular Jan 2 2009
AP, Minsk
Belarus’ central bank sharply devalued the Belarusian ruble Friday, allowing the currency to plunge 20 percent in a move that will stop the hemorrhaging of its...
made popular Jan 2 2009
AP, Moscow
Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev and his Belarusian counterpart held tough talks Monday focusing on Russia’s gas supplies to its ex-Soviet neighbor and...
made popular Dec 22 2008
AP, Moscow
Belarus’ president is seeking $3 billion in economic aid from Russia to help its struggling economy, but Moscow is demanding in return that Belarus recognizes two...
made popular Dec 22 2008
AP, Minsk
Belarus’ authoritarian president, whom the United States has called “Europe’s last dictator,” is asking the U.S. for a $5 billion loan.
made popular Dec 19 2008
AP, Ivanyets
Tortured by Stalin’s henchmen and attacked by Hitler’s forces, Aleksander Szekal almost became one of World War II’s millions of victims.
made popular Dec 17 2008
AP, Minsk
Nearly 2,000 entrepreneurs are rallying in Belarus’ capital, decrying new regulations that they say are destroying small business in the ex-Soviet republic.
made popular Dec 15 2008
AP, Petaluma
In a Nov. 24 story about a Belarusian girl who refused to return to her native country after an exchange program trip to northern California, The Associated Press...
made popular Dec 3 2008
AP, Geneva
Greece, Turkey and Belarus have missed deadlines to destroy their land mine stockpiles, as required under an international treaty to ban the weapon, said a report...
made popular Nov 21 2008
AP, Minsk
The lawyer for an American citizen imprisoned in Belarus says his client has been hospitalized.
made popular Nov 17 2008
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Wanganui cyclist Catherine Cheately has picked up a bronze medal for New Zealand in the women’s points race at the World Track Cycling Championship in...
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