By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The European Parliament awarded its 2020 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of thought to Belarus democratic opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya and other members of the movement in Brussels Wednesday. EU Parliament President David Sassoli presented the Prize to Tsikhanouskaya and
Credit: europe-diplomatic.eu/ Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko, President of Belarus DIPLOMATIC TIMES STAFF The U.S. no longer recognizes Aleksandr Lukashenko as the legitimate president of Belarus, the State Department said in a statement on Wednesday amid the country’s disputed election in August. Longtime incumbent President Lukashenko won 80.23%
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES MEPs called for new presidential elections in Belarus and urged the European Union to sanction President Lukashenko. Backing Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the EPP Group joined with other political forces Thursday in the European Parliament in a virtual
Maria Kalesnikava is a key political opposition leader in Belarus / Сильные Новости: GomelTube By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Maria Kolesnikova, a key opposition leader in Belarus, was reportedly snatched off a street in capital city Minsk in broad daylight on Monday by masked
Credit: Wikipedia / Belarus Opposition challenger Svetlana Tikhanovskaya By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – Belarusian opposition candidate Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya urged the United Nations to impose sanctions on individuals in the Belarus government of President Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko amid the
Credit: nato.usmission.gov / President Trump nominated Julie D. Fisher, of Tennessee, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Belarus. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES President Donald Trump in April nominated Julie Fisher to serve
Credit: Wikipedia / Belarus Opposition challenger Svetlana Tikhanovskaya By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Belarus main opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya has fled the country in the aftermath of Sunday’s disputed presidential elections. Tikhanovskaya reportedly left Belarus and is in Lithuania after she asserted that
Credit: europe-diplomatic.eu/ Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko, President of Belarus By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell sharply criticized Sunday’s presidential elections in Belarus for the “disproportionate and unacceptable state violence against peaceful protesters”. According to a preliminary