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Russian and Belarusian Players to Be Allowed to Compete at US Open

Russian and Belarusian players will be allowed to compete at the US Open this year but only under a neutral flag, the United States Tennis Association (USTA) announced on Tuesday. Players from Russia and Belarus are not being allowed to compete at Wimbledon later this month, a move which prompted…

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U.S. Open will let Russian and Belarussian players compete

U.S. Tennis Association CEO and Executive Director Lew Sherr said the USTA Board had a “concern about holding the individual athletes accountable for the actions and decisions of their governments.”

Chicago Sun-Times

Russian tennis players will be allowed to compete at US Open

The U.S. Open will allow tennis players from Russia and Belarus to compete this year despite the ongoing invasion of Ukraine

The Independent UK

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Fears Vladimir Putin will restart USSR nuclear base to launch new atomic weapons

A referendum in Belarus in February permitted the country to host nuclear weapons once more and permanently act as a base for Russian troops with fears it will be used for Russian nukes

Daily Mirror

Olympic champion accuses IOC of ‘giving birth to new war’ and urges end to Russia ban

Mariya Lasitskene has called on IOC president Thomas Bach to end the ban against Russian and Belarusian athletes which is preventing them from competing

Daily Mirror

Ex-Afghan soldiers stuck at Polish border in deadly ‘red zone’ after 2,500-mile journey

Refugees stuck in the area between the border of Poland and Belarus face a fight for survival. With little access to food and water, deaths have been reported in the 'red zone'

Daily Mirror

Switzerland adopts new EU sanctions against Russia, Belarus

Switzerland has adopted new EU sanctions against Belarus and Russia, also imposing financial and travel sanctions on 100 additional individuals and entities, including oligarch Aleksandra Melnichenko, the Federal Council said on Friday.

Reuters

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Russia could launch SECOND assault on Kyiv - and massively boost army numbers

Russian President Vladimir Putin could still pitch a large Belarusian army from the north after it was boosted from 45,000 troops to 85,000 for a second assault ok Ukraine's capital Kyiv

Daily Mirror

Belarus jails Radio Liberty freelancer for six years for 'extremism'

A court in Belarus sentenced a freelance journalist for the Belarusian service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to six years in jail on extremism charges, the broadcaster and the Spring-96 human rights organisation said on Wednesday.

Reuters

‘You have to step over your fear’: how to take on a dictator

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya and Tawakkol Karman led uprisings in Belarus and Yemen respectively. They explain what it means to be at the forefront of a revolution

The Guardian - UK

Neco Williams compares Wales World Cup qualification to being ‘kid at Christmas’

Covid-19, Belarus switch and Ukraine final delay were all obstacles in World Cup campaign

The Independent UK

Could Poland's Suwalki gap be Russia's next military target?

As war continues to rage in Ukraine, neighbouring countries worry that they might see the conflict spill over into their territory. In Poland, fears are centered around the Suwalki gap, a strip of Polish land that lies between the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad and Belarus. NATO troops are currently training…

France 24

Poland-Belarus border: The people pushed back in a Polish forest

In Poland, a tale of two borders. On the Belarusian border, refugees face pushbacks and detention.

Al Jazeera

The underground network of Belarusians sabotaging Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine and plotting a revolution at home

A vast network of former Belarusian officials, activists, private hackers and ordinary citizens has reached deep into Russia's war with the aim of helping Ukrainians defeat their invaders.

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Putin Says Ukrainian Grain Can Be Exported through Belarus

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday denied Moscow was preventing Ukrainian ports from exporting grain and said the best solution would be to ship it through Belarus, as long as sanctions on that country were lifted. Putin, saying reports of a Russian export ban were "a bluff", told national television…

The Guardian - UK

Russian troops pound Donbas as Ukraine war enters 100th day

Moscow has seized about a fifth of Ukrainian territory since its invasion and vows to continue ‘until all goals are achieved’

Reuters

Minsk will allow Ukrainian grain to transit Belarus in exchange for access to Baltic ports

Minsk is ready to allow the transit of Ukraine's grain to Baltic Sea ports via Belarus if it is allowed to ship Belarusian goods from these ports, the Belta news agency quoted Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko as saying on Friday.

Reuters

U.S. adds Russian airplane factories to economic blacklist

The United States on Thursday added 71 Russian and Belarusian entities to its trade blacklist including several aircraft factories and shipbuilding and research institutes in its latest effort to deprive the Russian military of U.S. technology and other items.

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Foreign Policy

The Booming Export of Authoritarianism

Ever more governments are reaching beyond their borders to silence their critics, according to a new Freedom House report.

Foreign Affairs

The Long Arm of Authoritarianism

How Dictators Reach Across Borders to Shut Down Dissent

WEKU

These Belarusians join the fight against Russia, defying their Moscow-backed regime

Belarusians who see their country's fate as linked to Ukraine's victory are joining an anti-Kremlin resistance that includes activists, ex-spies and a Belarusian brigade fighting for Ukraine.

The Conversation

French Open: understanding why Russian and Belarusian tennis players are competing despite Wimbledon ban

The world’s best tennis players are on court at the 2022 French Open, the first grand slam since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February. Unlike Wimbledon 2022, the French Open has decided to let Russian and Belarusian players compete.

The Independent UK

Ukraine news – live: EU bans Russian oil imports by sea ‘to stop Putin war machine’

Top Russian official says the Kremlin will find other importers after EU moves to partially ban oil imports from Moscow

Reuters

Belarus to conduct military mobilisation exercises near Ukraine border -BelTA

Belarus will conduct military mobilisation exercises in June and July in the Gomel region, state news agency BelTA reported on Monday.

360info

How Russia quietly built its allies since the Cold War

Despite widespread sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine, Russia still has many allies. This is how Russia built relationships from the ashes of the Cold War.

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