Belarus News News Belarus » Social: Belarusian Social-Media Pages Get A Suspiciously Russian Makeover
With some 136,000 members, the This Is Homel, Baby! group on the social-media site VK is the most popular online community serving the southwestern Belarusian city, about 40 kilometers from the border ...
News Belarus » Social: Belarus Declares Social Media Page Of Rights Organization 'Extremist'
Belarus has declared a social media account of one of its oldest rights organizations “extremist” as the government of strongman Alyaksandr Lukashenka continues its crackdown on dissent. Read our ...
News Belarus » Social: Belarus says no potash left after Trump claims massive deal for fertilizer
Belarus’s authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko said Monday that there are no available volumes of fertilizer to send to the U.S. This came after President Trump announced that he was working on ...
News Belarus » Social: Belarus sentences dissident’s girlfriend to six years in prison
A Belarusian court sentenced Sofia Sapega, the girlfriend of a dissident arrested after their commercial flight was forced to land in Belarus last year, to six years in prison on Friday for inciting ...
News Belarus » Social: Big Tech and authoritarian states: Belarus
In the latest GV podcast, we discussed why Russia restricts access to many social media services, while Belarus does not impose comparable restrictions; censorship, surveillance, and digital ...