Rights groups, activists and independent media in Russia and Belarus endured increased government scrutiny, repressive laws and even were shut down and forced to operate from exile abroad.

A project manager in Belarus's once-flourishing tech industry, Andrei Dorin admits his sector is in "crisis". Tech has been ...

Channeling state money to a series of oligarchs close to the Lukashenko family Intercepting a Ryanair passenger plane carrying a Belarusian dissident and forcing it to land in Minsk, in violation of ...

Musk-led cuts to the US foreign aid agency have impacted rights groups, independent media, and election monitoring campaigns ...