The Ukrainian Institute has lambasted the organizers of a prestigious German filmmaker residency program for inviting Russians and Belarusians to take part as well as Ukrainians, slamming the emergency program for the “perpetuation of both an outdated Soviet perspective and…
Belarus leader who helped dissolve USSR dies at 87
The first head of state of an independent Belarus, Stanislav Shushkevich, who with the leaders of Russia and Ukraine signed a decree dissolving the Soviet Union, has died aged 87, his wife told AFP. Shushkevich, who later became a critic…
Fight for life as Polish services pull migrants from freezing swamp
Four migrants from Syria and Iraq were rescu ed from a swamp in Poland near the border with Belarus late on Tuesday in a life-or-death operation as bitter winter conditions set in, security services said. While the number of migrants…
*Home teacher arrested for defiling six-year-old pupil in Lagos (Punch) *Low turnout as Lagos mosques reopen (Nation)
Home teacher arrested for defiling six-year-old pupil in Lagos (Punch) A 50-year-old old teacher, Uzor Anthony, has been apprehended by the police for allegedly defiling a six-year-old girl he was teaching at her parents’ home in the Olodi Apapa area…
Katana: Playing through coronavirus ‘very scary’
Kenyan midfielder Mohammed Katana has said that it has been “very scary” to have to play through coronavirus in Belarus, where he plays his club football. While football has begun to return in some of the bigger global leagues –…
Teenager stabs teacher, classmate to death (Punch)
A 15-year-old Belarusian on Monday stabbed his teacher and a classmate to death while seriously injuring two others, authorities said, in a rare school attack in the ex-Soviet nation. The teenager arrived at school before the first lesson and stabbed…