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Iryna Khalip

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39 articles
StoriesPolitics

Minsk madness What does Alexander Lukashenko’s latest eccentric diatribe tell us about his state of mind?

CommentPolitics

The power of refusal Why did Belarusian opposition politician Mikalai Statkevich choose a return to brutal imprisonment over exile in Lithuania?

StoriesPolitics

Big brothers Russia is playing catch-up with Belarus, which has long been imprisoning people for reading ‘extremist’ content online

StoriesSociety

Hanging on the telephone A Russian reservist has begun an 18-year prison sentence for treason after trying to visit his mother in Ukraine

AnalysisPolitics

Free at last What led to the release of 14 political prisoners from Belarusian prisons on Saturday?

StoriesSociety

Flying the flag A stalwart of the Belarusian protest movement lives on to march another day

InterviewSociety

Rowing it alone How Southampton-based anaesthesiologist Leonid Krivsky rowed across the Atlantic, collected £50,000 for Ukraine and found himself along the way

StoriesSociety

Putin’s revisionist gift The heroic defence of Minsk that never happened

StoriesSociety

Notes from the underground American musician Joanna Stingray reflects on her extraordinary life at the heart of Leningrad’s late-eighties rock scene

StoriesSociety

Mother courage One Kherson woman’s tireless attempts to rescue her abducted husband from Russian captivity

StoriesPolitics

The turncoat How Belarusian opposition journalist Raman Pratasevich began whitewashing the regime’s crimes

StoriesSociety

The night watch How a Nemtsov Bridge volunteer ended up being sent to prison for 12 years on terror charges

StoriesSociety

Beg my pardon Despite numerous amnesties, the number of political prisoners in Belarus continues to grow

OpinionSociety

Public confessions Russia has borrowed the mea culpa video from neighbouring Belarus

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