Poland's six-month presidency of the European Union is firmly focused on security. As Europe’s biggest land war in decades rages, fewer places highlight the challenges and contradictions of defending the bloc and its values more starkly than the border with Belarus.

Lithuania, Latvia, and Poland. A total of 1,039,954 European residents have visited Belarus since 15 April 2022.

The yellow name tag that Ales Bialiatski wears on his prison garb sets him apart from other inmates in Penal Colony No. 9 in eastern Belarus. It marks Bialiatski as a political prisoner to be singled out for harsh treatment.

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Jailed Belarusian politician Viktor Babariko, who was arrested while trying to run in a 2020 election against President Alexander Lukashenko, has been allowed to send a message to his family for the first time in nearly two years.

Belarus’s sham elections on 26 January will once again reappoint Alexander Lukashenka, writes from exile Belarusian journalist Hanna Liubakova.

About 17,000 unauthorised migrants crossed eastern land borders in total, according to border protection agency Frontex

The image went viral and was seen around the world, a symbol of the brutality of security forces in Belarus but also the resilience and bravery of protesters taking on an authoritarian regime.

The expert stressed that Belarus, like other countries of the post-Soviet bloc, used to be oriented towards Europe and the World Trade Organization.

OSCE observers not invited to monitor upcoming presidential election in Belarus. Belarus to host over 13,000 Russian troops for Zapad-2025 joint military drills with Russia. Belarus sentences EU diplomatic staffer to four years in prison.

Polish border guards look east into Belarus at the crossing point Połowce-Pieszczatka in Polowce, Poland on Jan 16. (AP)

The independent U.S.-based think tank said that the Kremlin is in "the endgame" of its plans to take over its neighbor.