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Prominent critic of the Belarusian government in Minsk, Andrei Hniot, speaks to media in front of the presidency building in Belgrade, Serbia, Monday, Sept. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)

A dissident film director from Belarus is released after 1 year of detention in Serbia

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FILE - A Polish border guard patrols the area of a built metal wall on the border between Poland and Belarus, near Kuznice, Poland, on June 30, 2022. NATO allies located along the alliance’s eastern front are growing increasingly worried about the presence of Russia-linked Wagner group mercenaries in Belarus. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk, File)

Belarus begins military drills near its border with Poland and Lithuania as tensions heighten

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This image from video released Wednesday, July 19, 2023, appears to show Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, left, for the first time since he led a short-lived rebellion in June. The grainy video of him speaking to troops at a field camp purportedly in Belarus, was posted on a messaging app channel linked to Prigozhin's Wagner private military company. (AP Photo)

Russia’s Wagner mercenaries launch joint training with Belarusian military near Polish border

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In this photo taken from video provided by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022, The Russian army's Iskander missile launchers take positions during drills in Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia has helped upgrade 10 Belarusian aircraft to make them capable to carry nuclear weapons and also provided Belarus with nuclear-capable Iskander short range missiles as Moscow plans to station nuclear weapons in Belarus. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File)

Belarus and Russia bringing Europe to ‘brink of nuclear war,’ opposition leader Tsikhanouskaya warns

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this handout photo taken from video released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2022, Russian soldiers take part in drills at an unspecified location in Belarus. After Russia invaded Ukraine, guerrillas from Belarus began carrying out acts of sabotage on their country's railways, including blowing up track equipment to paralyse the rails that Russian forces used to get troops and weapons into Ukraine. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Anti-Russia guerrillas in Belarus take on ‘two-headed enemy’

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Ales Bialiatski, the head of Belarusian Vyasna rights group, stands in a defendants' cage during a court session in Minsk, Belarus, on Nov. 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits, File)

Nobel laureate Bialiatski sentenced to 10 years in Belarus

By Yuras Karmanau - Associated Press

FILE - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko gestures while speaking to journalists at the Osipovichi training ground during the Union Courage-2022 Russia-Belarus military drills near Osipovichi , Belarus, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022. Lukashenko this week once again accused Ukraine of planning to attack it and announced creating a joint grouping of troops with Moscow, a move that stocked fears that Belarusian army could join Russian forces in Ukrainian trenches. (AP Photo, File)

Belarus army would likely have little impact in Ukraine war

By Yuras Karmanau - Associated Press

In this file photo taken on Friday, July 30, 2021, Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, of Belarus, runs in the women's 100-meter run at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Japan. A feud between Belarusian Olympic sprinter Tsimanouskaya and team officials that prompted her to seek refuge in Poland has again cast a spotlight on the repressive environment in the ex-Soviet nation, where authorities have unleashed a relentless crackdown on dissent. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

Belarus runner flies to Europe after feud with team managers

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

In this Sunday, March 26, 2017, file photo, Belarus police detain journalist Raman Pratasevich, center, in Minsk, Belarus. Raman Pratasevich, a founder of a messaging app channel that has been a key information conduit for opponents of Belarus’ authoritarian president, has been arrested after an airliner in which he was riding was diverted to Belarus because of a bomb threat. The presidential press service said President Alexander Lukashenko personally ordered that a MiG-29 fighter jet accompany the Ryanair plane — traveling from Athens, Greece, to Vilnius, Lithuania — to the Minsk airport. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits, File)

Michael McCaul seeks Alexander Lukashenko punishment for bogus threat to arrest opposition activist

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko pose for a photo during their meeting in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, Monday, Feb. 22, 2021. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Russia’s Putin hosts Belarusian president for talks in Sochi

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