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Jan 20 2023
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Belarus Edges Towards War As Putin Eyes Late 2023 Joint Campaign—ISW
Russian forces may be "setting conditions" for an attack on Ukraine from Belarus, as Vladimir Putin appears to be eyeing a joint campaign with counterpart Alexander Lukashenko in late 2023.
The Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a think tank based in Washington, made the assessment on Thursday. It predicted that a renewed invasion of northern Ukraine from Belarusian territory is
NewsweekJul 05 2023
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Belarus minister responsible for illegally diverting Ryanair flight to arrest opposition journalist dies mysteriously aged 46
The Belarusian minister responsible for illegally diverting a Ryanair flight to arrest opposition journalist Roman Protasevich has mysteriously died.
Aleksey Avramenko passed away suddenly on July 4 aged 46, according to state news agency Belta, which cited information from the government.
The agency did not report a cause of death.
Daily MailApr 07 2024
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Russian Soyuz spacecraft brings crew of 3, including NASA astronaut, back to Earth
A Russian Soyuz ferry ship undocked from the International Space Station and flew back to Earth early Saturday, bringing a Russian cosmonaut, a Belarusian guest flier and a NASA astronaut to a picture-perfect landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan.
Soyuz MS-24/70S commander Oleg Novitskiy, flanked on the left by Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus and on the right by NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara
CBS News (Online)Mar 31 2022
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Russian forces 'walking away' from Chernobyl, heading to Belarus: Pentagon official
Russian troops are beginning to pull out of the Chernobyl nuclear facility and moving into Belarus, a Pentagon official said on Wednesday.
The retreat comes a day after Russian officials said military operations in the Ukrainian cities of Kyiv and Chernihiv would scale back and over a month after Vladimir Putin's army seized the site of the catastrophic 1986 nuclear disaster.
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Washington ExaminerMay 24 2021
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US condemns Belarus over opposition journalist’s arrest after forced landing
The US has condemned Belarus for forcing a passenger airplane to land for a supposed “security alert” — leading to the arrest of an opposition journalist on board.
In a statement released late Sunday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called for the immediate release of Raman Pratasevich, a vocal critic of Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko who was busted after the plane touched
New York Post (News)Feb 10 2022
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Russia and Belarus hold joint military exercises as diplomatic talks ramp back up
Russia and Belarus began 10 days of joint military drills Thursday amid ongoing diplomatic efforts to defuse the crisis over fears that the Kremlin is planning an incursion into Ukrainian territory.
The military drills, called "Allied Resolve-2022," began in Belarus and will end February 20, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced Thursday in a statement.
"The purpose of the
CNN (Online News)Mar 24 2024
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Miami Open: Katie Boulter into fourth round but Aryna Sabalenka goes out
British number one Katie Boulter progressed to the fourth round of the Miami Open with a confident 6-2 6-3 win over Beatriz Haddad Maia. The 27-year-old took 90 minutes to secure victory against the Brazilian, who she beat on her way to winning the San Diego Open earlier this month. Boulter reached the last 16 of the tournament for the first time and will now face Victoria Azarenka of Belarus
BBC NewsNov 17 2021
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‘Not Refugees’: Polish Government Fact-Checks CNN on Belarus-Engineered Migrant Crisis
Poland’s national-conservative government has fact-checked CNN on the migrant crisis engineered on the European Union’s eastern border by Alexander Lukashenko’s Belarus.
Stanisław Żaryn, spokesman for the Minister-Coordinator of Special Services at National Security Department of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland, Mateusz Morawiecki, admonished CNN after it published an
Breitbart Fact CheckMar 22 2024
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Launch to space station safely aborted
MOSCOW -- Russia aborted the launch of three astronauts to the International Space Station moments before they were scheduled to lift off Thursday, but the crew was safe, officials said. The Russian Soyuz rocket was to carry NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, Oleg Novitsky of Roscosmos and Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus from the Russian-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan. The launch was
Arkansas Democrat-GazetteNov 11 2021
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‘We became like a chicken in a cage,’ a migrant says, trapped between Belarus and Poland.
Exhausted, freezing and exposed to the elements, Bayar Awat, his wife and infant daughter have been stuck on the Belarusian side of the Polish border for more than a week after leaving their homes in a desperate gambit to reach the European Union.
One of several thousand migrants from Iraq’s Kurdistan region at the Belarus border, Mr. Awat said that he knew Belarus was using migrants
New York Times (News)