Wimbledon barred Russian and Belarusian players from this year's championships due to Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, with the grasscourt Grand Slam becoming the first tennis tournament to ban individual competitors from the two countries.

>"A hijacked flight forced attention back on the European country. The world must respond, the leader of the Belarusian _...Read More_

[https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/31/belaarus-protests-disappeared-406706](https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/31/belaarus-protests-disappeared-406706) Dozens of people arrested while protesting the Belarus presidential election have vanished and remain unaccounted for — and the EU should not forget them.

>"Belarusian journalists are quitting their jobs at state-run media companies. They told Euronews why."

>"Euronews has heard evidence of physical abuse and inhumane conditions in Belarusian detention centres where _...Read More_

[https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/10/europe/belarus-lukashenko-election-analysis-intl/index.html](https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/10/europe/belarus-lukashenko-election-analysis-intl/index.html) Though thousands of Belarusians took to the streets to demonstrate against what they see as Sunday's blatantly rigged presidential election, _...Read More_

>"Protesters are disputing early election results that indicate the country's longtime authoritarian leader _...Read More_

These are the women joining forces to face Belarus' long-time leader Alexander Lukashenko in the upcoming August _...Read More_

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