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The tide is slowly turning on uncritical pro-West reporting on issues such as Russia’s war on Ukraine (above) or Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Photo: Bulent Kilic/AFP

Prelude to an apocalyptic, dystopian scenario: Russia’s war on Ukraine

Will the West be able to summon the fortitude to oppose Tsar Putin?

Peril: People from Africa, Middle East and India use the Ukraine-Poland Medyka pedestrian border crossing. (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto/AFP)

Ukraine refugees: West is empathic – if you are blonde

Europe has changed its attitude towards Ukraine refugees

Big brother’s watching: A woman walks past surveillance cameras in Akto, in China’s Xinjiang region. China is accused of genocide against the Uyghur people in the region. But the fear of surveillance is trumped by anger at being surveilled, according to the author. Photo: Greg Baker/AFP

How state surveillance can strengthen citizen dissent

Authoritarian regimes use spying to deter protest. But this can encourage people to stand up for what they believe in

Grave pit in the muslim cemetery of Bohoniki prepared for a miscarried baby from a migrant woman found in precarious state in the forests of Poland after crossing the border from Belarus during the migrant crisis between both countries. (Photo by Celestino Arce/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Death at the EU border: Migrants pay the price of Belarus’s ‘hybrid warfare’

Thousands are stuck in no-man’s land between Belarus and Poland, left to fend for themselves in dangerously cold temperatures

Migrants stay in the transport and logistics centre near the Bruzgi border point on the Belarusian-Polish border in the Grodno region on November 18, 2021. – Belarus. (MAXIM GUCHEK/BELTA/AFP via Getty Images)

What you need to know about the EU-Belarus migrant crisis

Here is what you need to know about the crisis that has seen thousands of migrants trapped in dire conditions on the Belarus-Poland border

Fireworks: The Million Masks March

Jeans revolution pops up in the UK

A troupe of exiled Belarus dissidents are bringing their brand of underground theatre to London.

Swedish activists intruded with a light plane on the Belarus’ airspace and dropped hundreds of teddy bears carrying slogans supporting human rights and media freedom

Teddy Bear stunt inciting a diplomatic row

Three Swedes behind the so-called "teddy bear" stunt in Belarus have been called to appear before the Belarus KGB.

Belarus requests IMF bailout

Belarus has asked the International Monetary Fund to bail it out of a growing economic crisis that has seen a currency devaluation and consumer panic.

Dirk Prinsloo sentenced to 13 years in Belarus jail

Dirk Prinsloo was sentenced to 13 years in prison in the Belarus on charges of theft, assault and attempted bank robbery, a report said on Tuesday.

Prinsloo faces sex charges in Belarus

Belarusian authorities are investigating claims of sexual crimes against Dirk Prinsloo, wanted in SA on 15 charges related to child pornography.

Soccer ref bust for being drunk on the field

A Belarus referee was helped off the field with apparent back pain while officiating a league match on the weekend, but was later found to be drunk.

Belarus concert blast wounds 50

About 50 people were wounded early on Friday by a home-made bomb that sprayed nuts and bolts into a crowd at an open-air concert in Belarus’s capital.

Belarus warns Russia over gas transit

Belarus issued an implicit threat that it could stop Russian gas deliveries through its pipelines to Western Europe unless Gazprom relented on demands that Kiev pay steep price…

Belarus’ opposition seeks way forward

Depleted by a wave of arrests, Belarus’ opposition movement is seeking ways to regroup after week-long protests were broken up by a state apparatus determined to defend President…

How not to freeze while on protest in Belarus

How to spend the night in a protest rally and not freeze, or bring food to protestors and not be molested by the police? Ask those Belarussian websites not yet shut down by the…

Belarus leader clinches new term, opposition cries foul

Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko clinched a third term in office on Monday but opponents blasted the vote as an "unconstitutional seizure of power" and the European…

Peaceful life in Belarus’s contaminated zone

PYOTR Annishenko and his wife Evdokia refused to leave their village in eastern Belarus even though the authorities tried to make them abandon the area polluted by the 1986…