Tag: Vladimir Putin

MINSK — Svetlana Alexievich is something very rare in Belarus. It’s not just that she’s a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, but she’s also one of the few ...

Konrad Szymański is Poland’s minister for European affairs. WARSAW — For anyone in the West who believed in the possibility of “normal” relations with Moscow, the poisoning of Russian opposition leader ...

Poisoned Russian dissident Alexei Navalny is vowing to return to Russia as soon as he is recovered, according to a report Monday. The political foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin ...

Russia is to loan $1.5 billion to Belarus to help avoid an economic crisis, President Vladimir Putin said Monday as he met with embattled leader Alexander Lukashenko. The two men ...

The Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been taken off a ventilator and is able to leave his bed for short periods of time, German doctors who have been treating ...

Russia’s ruling party is on course for a series of local election wins, but also looks set to suffer some setbacks as allies of poisoned Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny scored rare ...

In several dozen of the country’s 85 regions, Russians voted for regional governors and lawmakers in regional and city legislatures as well as in several by-elections for national MPs. The ...

KYIV, Ukraine — More than 100,000 demonstrators calling for the authoritarian president of Belarus to resign marched through the capital of Minsk on Sunday as the daily protests that have ...

In 41 of the country’s regions, Russians are voting for regional governors and assemblies as well as in four by-elections for national MPs and other polls. Coming a year ahead ...

NOVOSIBIRSK, Russia — On the outskirts of Russia’s third-largest city, 19-year-old Anna Lapty is doing her best to convince an elderly man to accept a flyer for the opposition candidate ...