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Lithuanian guards have found the suspected remains of three individuals in a river close to the country’s border with Belarus.

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya said some political prisoners have died in jail.

Crowds of Belarusian citizens, including members of the country’s government in exile, gathered in Warsaw on the 39th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion calling on their state authorities to stop investing in nuclear power.

The operations aim to inflame divisions between Lithuanians and Belarusians.

Russian citizens living in Lithuania risk losing the right to stay in the country if they visit Russia frequently under new rules passed by Vilnius in response to Moscow’s ongoing war in Ukraine.

Authorities in Belarus have launched a school campaign ahead of Victory Day in Europe, asking students to perform symbolic physical tasks, including balancing books on their heads.

Belarus has agreed to accept up to 150,000 Pakistani workers to boost labor shortages in the country and “contribute to nation-building efforts.”

The Czech government has expelled a Prague-based Belarusian journalist, accusing her of being “a key collaborator of the Russian military intelligence service.”

Lithuanian border guards have said that the reported arrest of a U.S. citizen in neighboring Belarus is unconnected to the ongoing search for a missing American soldier.

A U.S. citizen has been detained at a railway station in Belarus after being found in an empty train carriage.

Belarusian rights group Viasna reported her disappearance on Friday.

Andrzej Poczobut was arrested four years ago.

The ban on Russian and Belarusian athletes from international competitions will not be lifted until a peace agreement ends the war in Ukraine, World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has said.

New evidence suggests that a site near a town in central Belarus could be the location of a secret Russian nuclear weapons hub.

A Polish human rights activist is among those honored by the Belarusian government in exile for supporting the opposition’s fight for democracy in the country gripped by Alexander Lukashenko’s authoritarian rule.

98% of illegal immigrants are successfully turned back at the border.

A Russian comedian was allegedly beaten by Belarusian security services while being detained for telling a joke about a Russian soldier who has lost a leg.

Independent media claim the sentence was retaliation for joining the 2020 protests.

The breaching banks of the Bug River in eastern Poland threaten to cut off a centuries-old monastery, leaving it on the Belarusian side of the border.

A Lithuanian intelligence report accuses Minsk of being “subservient” to Moscow.