Either maintaining Russia’s military bases in Syria or finding an alternative outpost in the Mediterranean will prove ...

Belarus, Friday, Jan. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov) FILE - A woman covers herself with an old Belarusian national flag while shouting at police during a protest near the residence of ...

Several players at Australian Open 2025 have been competing without a national flag, with world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka included.

Near a border checkpoint between Belarus and Ukraine ... a large blue and yellow sign in the colours of the Ukrainian flag can be seen. The road leads to Chernigiv, a major city in northern ...

Rights groups, activists and independent media in Russia and Belarus endured increased government scrutiny, repressive laws and even were shut down and forced to operate from exile abroad.

Worthy of its very own Polish National Flag Day, let us tell you everything ... which is now used in Belarus along with the white-red-white flag. The Polish eagle wears a crown: it symbolises the ...

With many of his political opponents either jailed or exiled abroad, Alexander Lukashenko, dubbed “Europe’s last dictator,” is all but certain to add a seventh term.

and pushed for abandoning the country’s red-and-white national flag in favor of one similar to what it used as a Soviet republic. Belarus' top security agency kept its fearsome Soviet-era name of the ...

Along with others from Belarus and Russia ... as Daniil Medvedev and Andrey Rublev have been competing under no national flag. Kieran Francis is a senior editor at The Sporting News based in ...

and pushed for abandoning the country’s red-and-white national flag in favor of one similar to what it used as a Soviet republic. Belarus' top security agency kept its fearsome Soviet-era name ...