Tag: Belarus
IOC ends Russia ban – Sport
Almost 22 months after the outbreak of war and despite the ongoing bloodshed in Ukraine, the IOC has taken the expected final step: Russians and Belarusians will be admitted as…
Russian and Belarusian athletes authorized to participate under neutral banner by the IOC
FABRICE COFFRINI via Getty Images For Russia and Belarus, the Paris 2024 Olympic Games will necessarily be synonymous with a neutral banner. FABRICE COFFRINI via Getty Images For Russia and…
The IOC authorizes Russians and Belarusians to participate under a neutral banner
The decision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was expected. It fell this Friday: Russian and Belarusian athletes are authorized to participate under a neutral banner in the 2024 Olympic…
Raids in Belarus against opposition members: The authorities’ revenge – Culture
The Belarusian Nobel Prize winner for literature Svetlana Alexievich may lose her apartment in Minsk, Belarus, in raids against opposition figures. Since the end of October, the Belarusian government has…
Belarusian regime takes Sasha Filipenko’s father hostage – culture
This is a new low point in repression. This is what the Belarusian writer Sasha Filipenko, who lives in Switzerland, says: The regime of dictator Alexander Lukashenko is now not…
Syrian migrant injured by soldier’s shooting on Polish-Belarusian border
He heard a scream then felt “a shot which hit him in the back”. A 23-year-old Syrian migrant was injured by the shooting of a Polish soldier while trying to…
Migration via Belarus: “Hybrid attack on Latvia”
As of: October 14, 2023 3:38 p.m Latvia says it has prevented more than 11,000 migrants from crossing the green EU border from Belarus this year. The border guard accuses…
Poland has a migration crisis: On the move at the border fence with Belarus
Poles will elect a new parliament on Sunday. The incumbent PiS government is fueling fear of refugees and preventing migrants from crossing its eastern border – if necessary with violence.…
Belarusian evening in the Literaturhaus München – Munich
The best Belarusian prose of the year is annually awarded the prestigious Jerzy Giedroyc Prize. In 2021, Eva Viežnaviec received it for the novel “What are you looking for, Wolf?”…
Initial reception center for refugees: half comes via Russia and Belarus
Eisenhüttenstadt Initial reception center for refugees: half comes via Russia and Belarus Two refugees in the initial reception center in Eisenhüttenstadt © ODD ANDERSEN Smugglers charge refugees several thousand euros…