--- title: Belarus | TIME description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. canonical: https://time.com/tag/belarus/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/tag/belarus/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://gcp-na-images.contentstack.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: article twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://gcp-na-images.contentstack.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Belarus ## Belarus *  Mar 3, 2022 ## [Ukraine Athletes Say Beijing Games ‘Front Line’ as Russia Banned](https://time.com/6154304/ukraine-paralympics-russia-banned/) [SPORTS](/section/sports/) by Bloomberg *  Feb 25, 2022 ## [Belarus' Role in Russia's Invasion on Ukraine](https://time.com/6151347/belarus-russia-ukraine/) [WORLD](/section/world/) by Chad de Guzman *  Nov 18, 2021 ## [How a Manufactured Migrant Crisis Showed That Europe's Last Dictator Can Rattle the EU](https://time.com/6121141/belarus-europe-migrants/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) by Michael D. Weiss and Monika Richter *  May 24, 2021 ## [Belarus's Opposition Leader Criticizes Lukashenko After Plane 'Hijacking'](https://time.com/6050850/belarus-lukashenko-protasevich-tikhanovskaya/) [WORLD](/section/world/) by Vivienne Walt *  Feb 25, 2021 ## [How a Belarusian Teacher and Stay-at-Home Mom Came to Lead a National Revolt](https://time.com/5941818/svetlana-tikhanovskaya-belarus-opposition-leader/) [WORLD](/section/world/) by Vivienne Walt *  Oct 2, 2020 ## [Meet the 73-Year-Old Great-Grandmother Defying the Dictatorship in Belarus](https://time.com/5895174/nina-baginskaya-belarus/) [WORLD](/section/world/) by Madeline Roache *  Aug 21, 2020 ## [How Defiance in Belarus Became a Movement](https://time.com/5882099/defiance-movement-belarus/) [WORLD](/section/world/) by Michael D. Weiss *  Aug 20, 2020 ## [Why Putin Is Unlikely to Come to Belarusian President Lukashenko's Rescue](https://time.com/5881585/lukashenko-putin-belarus/) [WORLD](/section/world/) by Ian Bremmer *  Aug 18, 2020 ## [What to Know About the Anti-Government Protests in Belarus](https://time.com/5880593/belarus-protests-lukashenko/) [WORLD](/section/world/) by Madeline Roache *  Aug 7, 2020 ## [The Leader of Europe's 'Last Dictatorship' Is Facing an Unprecedented Challenge. Here's What It Could Mean for Belarus](https://time.com/5875494/belarus-election/) [WORLD](/section/world/) by Madeline Roache *  Sep 14, 2017 ## [Russia Begins Major Military Drills, Unsettling the West](https://time.com/4941045/russia-zapad-drills-nato/) [WORLD](/section/world/) by Simon Shuster *  Mar 15, 2017 ## [The Suwalki Gap: The Most Vulnerable Stretch of Land in Europe](https://time.com/4675758/suwalki-gap-europe-photos/) [WORLD](/section/world/) by Zamira Rahim *  Dec 5, 2016 ## [After Castro—5 Nations Where Dictators Still Rule](https://time.com/4587639/fidel-castro-death-autocracies/) [WORLD](/section/world/) by Ian Bremmer *  Sep 12, 2016 ## [Belarus Elects First Opposition Lawmaker in 20 Years](https://time.com/4487048/belarus-opposition-lukashenko-russia-moscow-sanctions/) [WORLD](/section/world/) by Feliz Solomon *  Oct 12, 2015 ## [Belarus' Dictatorial President Wins Fifth Term](https://time.com/4069567/belarus-election-president-alexander-lukashenko/) [WORLD](/section/world/) by Mark Rivett-Carnac ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/"},"name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/belarus/","name":"Belarus"}}]}] ```