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Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 12, 2020
Trump’s election tactics put him in unsavory company
Trump has joined a club of truculent leaders who, regardless of what voters decide, declare themselves the winners of elections.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 19, 2020
Russia’s post-Soviet hegemony is fading
Moscow's backyard is not what it was. A multi-polar world is emerging, but not the one Vladimir Putin has sought to promote.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 13, 2020
In Putin’s pain, there is an opportunity
Putin is taking great pleasure in the convulsions that have seized the U.S. body politic, yet the satisfaction must be fleeting as his attention focuses elsewhere.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 8, 2020
Putin, long the sower of instability, is now surrounded by it
Concurrent crises have blindsided the Kremlin, undermining the Russian leader's image as a master tactician on the world stage.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 28, 2020
Lukashenko and Erdogan are laughing at the EU
The EU still requires unanimity for all foreign policy decisions. This has been one factor, amid many, that's neutered European foreign policy over the years.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 20, 2020
Hong Kong offers a glimpse of one Belarus future
From the start, the crowds in Minsk learned from Hong Kong's broad-based, leaderless campaign. They, too, were making demands of a system ill-equipped to compromise.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 16, 2020
Europe needs to recognize the threat from Russia
Moscow's forthright challenge to international norms demands a forceful Western response. But it won't come from the Trump administration.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Sep 13, 2020
Putin doubles down on Belarus ally, wary of protest contagion
Russian President Vladimir Putin is tightening his embrace of beleaguered ally Alexander Lukashenko as the Belarusian ruler intensifies a crackdown on monthlong protests.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 8, 2020
Hundreds of Belarus protesters say they were beaten by police
A rights group identified 500 cases of police torture across the former Soviet republic since a disputed presidential election on Aug. 9.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 6, 2020
Russia is using the media to wage war in Belarus. Sound familiar?
Vladimir Putin is trying to convey the impression that he is just a concerned neighbor in the Belarusian crisis.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 26, 2020
Belarus is Putin’s to lose
The Russian president's continued support for the Lukashenko regime risks pushing the country toward the West.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Aug 22, 2020
U.S. No. 2 diplomat to visit Russia and Lithuania to discuss Belarus
The No. 2 U.S. diplomat will visit Russia and Lithuania soon for talks on Belarus, two sources familiar with the matter said Friday, as Washington seeks a peaceful resolution to that country's election crisis that averts Russian intervention.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 18, 2020
Japanese man detained in Belarus amid post-election protests
The man was detained last Wednesday and has been kept in a facility in the capital, the Japanese Embassy said, adding that it is still gathering information.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Aug 14, 2020
Belarusian opposition leader calls for new protests and vote recount
Belarusian opposition politician Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya on Friday asked supporters to sign an online petition demanding a recount of last Sunday's presidential election, in which she believes she was cheated out of victory.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 30, 2020
Belarus says it suspects Russian mercenaries of violent plot ahead of election
Belarus said it suspected a group of alleged Russian mercenaries of plotting "acts of terrorism" ahead of a presidential election in August and summoned Russia's ambassador on Thursday for an explanation.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 27, 2020
Japan to extend entry ban to Russia and 13 other countries, Abe says
Japan will deny entry to foreign travelers from a further 14 countries, including Russia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, strengthening its border controls to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said.
WORLD
Jan 22, 2020
Trump administration planning to add seven countries to travel ban list, reports say
The Trump administration is planning to add seven countries — Belarus, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania — to its controversial travel ban list, according to media reports on Tuesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
May 23, 2019
Belarus reburies over 1,200 Jews unearthed in Nazi-era mass grave
Belarus on Wednesday buried more than 1,200 Jewish Holocaust victims whose remains were unearthed this year after builders stumbled across a Nazi-era mass grave beneath a construction site in a residential area.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Feb 27, 2019
Remains of hundreds of Jews unearthed in Nazi-era mass grave in Belarus
Soldiers in Belarus have unearthed the bones of hundreds of people shot during World War II from a mass grave discovered at the site of a ghetto where Jews lived under the Nazis.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Jan 17, 2019
Thailand deports 'sex seminar' Belarusian model who claimed to have evidence of Trump secrets
A model from Belarus who was arrested during a "sex training seminar" in Thailand and then claimed to have evidence of Russian interference in U.S. President Donald Trump's election was deported on Thursday.

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