Belarus

By Astghik Bedevian YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — Armenia on February 8 shrugged off Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s claims that it will have no choice but to join a Russian-led “union state” of former Soviet republics. In a[...]

Armenia’s snap parliamentary elections not only surprised the losers, but also the winners. After the final rally by former president Robert Kocharyan’s supporters, observers believed that finally the Kocharyan campaign had gained[...]

YEREVAN/MINSK — Zhora Akopyan, a 23-year-old from Minsk, is a Thai boxing and kickboxing world champion among professionals. He was born in the city of Akhalkalaki (Georgia). When he was 5 years old, the family moved to the Belarusian[...]

YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — A leading Armenian political analyst believes that the establishment of democracy in Belarus will be of high significance to Armenia, a member of the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union and Collective Security Treaty[...]