The Latest Breaking News from Belarus

Shares of money transfer services provider Western Union (WU) have tumbled recently on the back of a broader market dip and concerns surrounding the halt of its operations in Russia and Belarus. Although strategic partnerships could help expand its global network significantly, a decline in retail money transfers and expenses…

The UK on Sunday said it was slapping fresh sanctions on Russia and Belarus over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, including import tariffs on precious metals and export bans. The import tariffs, including on platinum and palladium, target trade worth £1.4 billion ($1.7 billion or 1.6 billion euros), while export bans…

Britain announced on Sunday it will increase tariffs on platinum and palladium imports from Russia and Belarus in a new package of sanctions targeting 1.7 billion pounds ($2.10 billion) of trade, which it said aimed to further weaken Russian President Vladimir Putin's war machine.

The total value of good subject to sanctions has now exceeded £4billion

Latest £1.7bn sanctions include UK import tariffs on metals and chemicals

The sanctions outlined by the International Trade Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan and Chancellor Rishi Sunak involve import tariffs and export bans.

A Belarusian court has sentenced Sofia Sapega, the girlfriend of a dissident detained on a Ryanair flight, to six years in prison for “inciting social hatred”.

The flight changed course to head for Minsk after an alleged bomb scare

While we tend our graves, vanquished Russian troops are heading through Belarus in a cloud of radioactivity after literally digging up the past, says novelist Andrey Kurkov

Russian citizen held along with boyfriend a year ago when flight she was on was forced to land

A Belarusian court on Friday sentenced Sofia Sapega, the girlfriend of a dissident detained after their commercial flight was forced to land in Belarus last year, to six years in prison for inciting social hatred, the Vyasna rights group said.