Alena Shalayeva is a web editor for Current Time Digital.
After the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, hundreds of thousands of children from hard-hit areas of Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia spent summer vacations in the West to get away, even for a short time, from the irradiated region. Among them: today's Belarusian opposition leader, Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya.
Twenty-five years ago, two Americans’ attempt to win a prestigious balloon race ended in tragedy over Belarus.
As they defend fellow citizens swept up in the state's crackdown on postelection protests, Belarusian lawyers face a rising caseload -- and often find themselves targeted for arrest and detention as well.
President Alyaksandr Lukashenka is not the only familiar political figure in Belarus’ August 9 presidential vote. Overseeing the election process is a 67-year-old woman: Central Election Commission Chairwoman Lidiya Yermoshina.
A 72-year-old woman in Belarus has racked up more than $16,000 in fines for taking part in decades of demonstrations and protests, many alone and holding the banned Belarusian first republic flag.
