EU, US, UK and Canada also target Belarusian revenue sources in response to forcible diversion of international flight to Minsk to detain opposition activist on board

Human rights group says at least 460 political prisoners are being held in penitentiaries on criminal charges related to protests against authoritarian President Lukashenko

Government critic Raman Pratasevich, who faces 15 years in jail, arrested and detained when plane lands, sparking international outrage

Belarus orders Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius to divert to Minsk, claiming bomb threat; Raman Pratasevich, who faces 15 years in jail, was detained when it landed

87-year-old Elizaveta Yakovlevna Bursova, who survived WWII hiding in the Urals and later became a sharpshooter for her country's military: 'This symbol unites our whole society'

Demonstrators met with hundreds of soldiers deploying water cannons, armored personnel carriers and erecting barbed wire barriers; dozens said arrested

Riot police bundle hundreds of women into vans, as opposition marchers rally in Minsk calling to end President Alexander Lukashenko's 26-year rule

Amid rising tensions, Minsk offers 'green corridor' to allow pilgrims to go to Uman, but Kyiv insists border will stay closed amid pandemic; many blame Israel for impasse

At least 70 people detained; many marchers carry portraits of Maria Kolesnikova, a leader of the opposition Coordination Council who was jailed this week

Protesters claim that President Lukashenko's victory in recent elections was rigged, but veteran strongman is refusing to talk with opposition about transferring power