MINSK, July 7. /TASS/. Minsk is striving for full membership in BRICS, Belarusian Foreign Minister Maxim Ryzhenkov told BelTA following his participation in the group’s summit in Rio de Janeiro.

We are grateful to the BRICS member states for their support but our ultimate goal is full membership in BRICS. We will be willing to join once the association is ready for expansion,” Maksim ...

Belarus has freed Siarhei Tsikhanouski, a key dissident figure and the husband of exiled opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, following a rare visit by a senior U.S. official. Tsikhanouski ...

Audra Plepytė reflected on her experience as ambassador and stressed Trump's cooperation with the Baltic States in her final ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko on Belarus’s Independence Day ...

The Court of Justice found that two chemical plants in Belarus substantially supported the Lukashenko regime and were ...

The Russian leader noted in his congratulatory message that this holiday, the day of the Soviet Army's liberation of Minsk from the Nazi German invaders, is an important date for both Russian and Bela ...

The Belarus president and the Belarusian people have been congratulated by the leaders of Russia, China, Kazakhstan, ...

Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko has pardoned 16 more prisoners, continuing his selective releases while also cracking ...

Last month, the Belarusian government pardoned and released 14 prisoners, but at least 60 more people were arrested on ...

Longtime former RFE/RL journalist Ihar Karnei was arrested in July 2023 after the KGB came to his home in Belarus. Freed in a ...

Mass arrests and convictions of government critics in Belarus have continued since 2020, when Belarusian President Alexander ...