Alexander Lukashenko

Belarus border guard reportedly sentenced over teddy bear drop

2013-02-18 17:47:00

A Belarusian border guard reportedly will spend two years behind bars for failing to tell his superiors about a Swedish plane that entered the country in July to make an air drop -- of teddy bears.� Hundreds of plush bears with parachutes and protest...

Belarus leader denied entry to Britain for Olympics or otherwise

2012-07-25 13:33:48

Belarus fires generals after teddy bears drop from the sky

2012-08-02 13:13:24

Belarus pushes Sweden to close its embassy in Minsk

2012-08-08 13:54:30

Bahrain, Belarus newly dubbed as 'Internet enemies'

2012-03-12 16:40:25

Are the media free? What people said around the world

2012-03-28 21:41:24

Ruslan Salei -- a.k.a. 'Rusty' -- was more than a hockey player

2011-09-07 16:33:52

Tom Stoppard, Don Delillo and Billy Crudup read to aid Belarus Free Theater

2011-01-14 16:33:38

'Minsk, 2011' finds sexual heat in totalitarian chill

2013-01-31 00:00:00

In these free, privileged United States, the phrase "Sex in the City" conjures up a premium-cable experience of hot nights, cool fashion, heavy appetizers and relationship angst so light it might fly away on the West Village breeze. But whither real sex...

This weekend is bringing a 'Measure' of 'Proof'

2013-03-14 07:50:00

This is a busy theater weekend in Chicago. Playwright David Auburn's "Proof" comes home to Hyde Park after 13 years, and at the Goodman Theatre, William Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure" takes a trip, perhaps a strange trip, to 1970s New York, an era...

Belarus Free Theatre explores oppression through the prism of sex

2013-01-28 11:23:00

The sex lives of modern cities — Berlin in the 1920s, New York or San Francisco in the 1970s — tend to be characterized in terms of underground cabarets and over-the-top discos, of fast times fueled by carefree hedonism. But the sex life...

Joel Brinkley: What tyrants fear most: social media

2012-11-27 14:30:03

Most of the world's dictators share a common fear, and it's not of the United States, NATO, the United Nations or any outside entity. No, the force that most threatens them is social media. Originally designed as enhanced online chat forums for young...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, right, attends a military parade marking Independence Day in Minsk, the capital, on July 3, 2012.

2013-02-18 17:33:00

A man casts his vote in the village of Svidno, Belarus. The ex-Soviet state holds parliamentary elections, two years after a presidential poll ended in the beating and arrest of hundreds of protesters who had accused President Alexander Lukashenko of vote rigging.

2012-09-23 00:00:00

Policemen arrest activists of Ukrainian women's movement FEMEN protesting in front of the Olympic stadium in Kiev against the UEFA and against the visit of Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko to attend final match of the EURO 2012 opposing Italy to Spain on July 1, 2012.

2012-07-01 00:00:00