Belarus Olympics kidnapping: Team officials bundle female sprinter to the Tokyo airport and try to force her back home after she criticised national coaches By Jack Wright For Mailonline Published: 08:35 EDT, 1 August 2021 | Updated: 08:50 EDT, 1 August 2021 Belarusian Olympic officials allegedly bundled a female sprinter to an airport in Tokyo … Read more
Women are posting photos of their legs in stockings to support a tights model who was jailed for protesting against the re-election of President Lukashenko in Belarus. Former Miss Belarus Olga Khizinkova was arrested last month after taking part in huge ‘unauthorised’ demonstrations in Minsk. Female protesters are now flooding social media with photos of their … Read more
UK kicks out two Belarus officials in tit-for-tat move after British diplomats are expelled for ‘legitimate observation’ of pro-democracy protests UK has retaliated after two officials kicked out of Belarus for observing protests A pair of diplomats from the former Soviet state have been expelled from the UK Alexander Lukashenko facing demonstrations amid claims he … Read more
As the sun slid from the evening sky over Minsk, clusters of people thronged the imposing entrance of the Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus clutching their tickets for the ballet. Many had dressed up to attend one of the city’s landmark buildings, a legacy of the Stalin era that was inspired by Roman amphitheatres. ‘We don’t want … Read more
Die-hard Jewish pilgrims have refused to leave Ukraine‘s border with Belarus after more than 1,000 give up hope and turn back due to coronavirus restrictions. Orthodox-Jewish believers, including hundreds of children, have camped out throughout the week in no-man’s land at the border crossing ahead of Jewish New Year celebrations this weekend. Tens of thousands … Read more
Belarus’s embattled president Alexander Lukashenko says he has placed the military on high alert and will close borders with Poland and Lithuania amid fears of a ‘war’. The strongman, known as Europe’s last dictator, appealed to the ‘crazy leaders’ of both countries, plus Ukraine, not to let conflict break out, saying it ‘will not resolve … Read more
Belarus’s embattled strongman Alexander Lukashenko mopped his brow under Vladimir Putin‘s gaze today as he flew to Russia to beg for the Kremlin’s support to keep him in power. The man nicknamed the ‘last dictator in Europe’ cut a submissive figure as he pleaded with Putin to back his regime while the bored-looking Russian president … Read more
Belarus opposition leader Maria Kolesnikova, who was snatched by masked men on Monday and nearly deported, is being held in Mink prison. She was driven to the border in the dead of night but she tore up her passport to foil authorities trying to deport her to Ukraine. Her fellow opposition members have now claimed Kolesnikova … Read more
A Belarus opposition leader tore up her passport to foil authorities trying to deport her to Ukraine in the dead of night, it was claimed today. Maria Kolesnikova was driven to a border crossing in the early hours of this morning but ‘took action’ to prevent her ‘forcible expulsion’, Ukraine’s government said, a day after … Read more
Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko has claimed that his security forces had intercepted German calls showing that Kremlin foe Alexei Navalny’s poisoning had been faked. Lukashenko told visiting Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin in Minsk on Thursday that the call between Berlin and Warsaw showed that the incident was a ‘falsification’. ‘There was no poisoning of … Read more