By Jenna McLaughlin Russian troops are using Belarus as a staging ground to invade Ukraine from the north, but Belarusians are against it. At a D.C. area bar, two activists talked about their home country of Belarus. Source: Belarusian activists on digital rights, Belarus in the world, and the way forward
By Joe Sommerlad Old school Soviet relic Alexander Lukashenko increasingly dependent on Vladimir Putin’s patronage for survival as grip on power slips and economy teeters on brink of disaster Source: Why is Belarus supporting Russia and how is it involved in Ukraine? Category: Europe, World
By Nebi Qena and Cara Anna/AP (KYIV, Ukraine) — Ukraine accused Moscow on Thursday of forcibly taking hundreds of thousands of civilians from shattered Ukrainian cities to Russia, where some may be used as “hostages” to pressure Kyiv to give up. Lyudmyla Denisova, Ukraine’s ombudsperson, said 402,000 people, including 84,000 children, had been taken to […]