Crisis in Belarus - TASS

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Investigative Committee of Belarus charges 45 people with plotting coup

Belarus’ Supreme Court turns down appeal against sentence handed to Tikhanovskaya

Belarusian border guards find body of African refugee near Latvian border

Belarus agrees to send Sapega to Russia to serve out her sentence

Extradition process for convicted Russian national Sofia Sapega launched — lawyer

Anton Gashinsky refrained from saying when the handover would take place

Belarusian court sentences ex-presidential candidate Tikhanovskaya to 15 years in absentia

Svetlana Tikhanovskaya was found guilty of high treason, conspiracy to seize state power, of setting up and managing an extremist unit, and making public calls to seize power

Belarusian border guards stop Lithuanian security forces from sending refugees to Belarus

Lithuanian and Polish law enforcement officers regularly try to force illegal migrants into Belarus, along with leaving the bodies of dead refugees on the border

Belarusian law enforcement opens case against ex-presidential candidate for extremism

"Currently, over 200 people are being checked as part of the criminal case," the Ministry representative said

Lithuanian law enforcement pushes beaten-up refugees into Belarus, Minsk says

The Border Committee quoted some refugees as saying that they had been physically abused on Lithuanian soil, including with tasers

West planned war against Russia in case of successful 2020 coup in Belarus — Lukashenko

"The war would have started in 2021-2022," the Belarusian leader stressed

Polish border guards push a large group of refugees to Belarusian territory

Most foreigners required warm clothes, food and medical examination

West used migration crisis to build up forces near Belarusian border, says security chief

"There are no longer any migrants, but tensions remain, large groupings remain, drills remain, and now there is talk of using tactical nuclear weapons. The situation is really difficult," Alexander Volfovich noted

Kremlin suggests waiting for Belarusian leader’s decision on convicted Russian’s fate

Dmitry Peskov noted that it was up to Belarus to decide whether to hand Sofia Sapega over to Russia

Belarusian court hands Russian national Sofia Sapega six-year prison sentence

She was found guilty on charges of ‘deliberate acts aimed at inciting social enmity and discord on the basis of social affiliation committed by a group of persons, which had grave consequences’