Belarus’ authoritarian president on Tuesday defended the ex-Soviet nation’s parliamentary elections despite the opposition’s failure to win a single seat.

The U.S. administration has suspended some economic sanctions against this former Soviet nation, the U.S. Embassy said Friday.

An American lawyer has been sentenced to three years in prison in Belarus in a case that raised already high tensions between Washington and the authoritarian ex-Soviet republic.

Venezuela signed over three more oil fields to a joint venture with Belarus on Wednesday, with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez declaring that the two nations were strongly united in their resistance to “U.S. imperialism” and Washington’s...

More than 50 people were injured Friday when a bomb went off at an outdoor concert in the Belarusian capital. Officials blamed “hooligans.”The blast took place at a concert in downtown Minsk marking the ex-Soviet nation’s independence day. Minsk...

Belarusian health officials say more than 50 people have been injured in a bomb explosion at an outdoor concert in the capital of Minsk.The blast took place before dawn Friday at a downtown concert celebrating the country’s independence day. The concert...

Dozens of Belarusian news Web sites on Wednesday filled their pages with grim black banners to protest a new media law that will severely restrict the last source of independent information in the repressive ex-Soviet state.The popular online news...

Belarusian lawmakers gave final approval Tuesday to a crackdown on Internet journalism, one of the last remaining independent sources of information in the repressive former Soviet republic.The legislation also forbids all Belarusian media outlets from...

Belarus’ authoritarian president invited Pope Benedict XVI to the mostly Orthodox former Soviet republic, the presidential press service said in a statement Friday.Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko made the offer the same day he met with Vatican’s...

A Defense Ministry official in Belarus says the remains of 180 Napoleonic soldiers who died in a major battle against the Russian army have been found in the former Soviet republic.Tens of thousands of French troops were killed when the Russians attacked...