“The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Paralympic Committee (IPC) allow qualified and eligible athletes with Russian and Belarusian passports to participate in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in a neutral status. For its part, the ITF confirms that tennis players from these countries can also participate in Olympic and Paralympic tennis tournaments as neutral … Read more
2023-04-22 13:46:00 The chief prosecutor would sentence Raman Pratasevich, the Belarusian journalist who was detained by Alexander Lukashenko in 2021 after forcing a Ryanair flight between Athens and Vilnius to land in Minsk, to 10 years in prison, Medúza reports. Pratašević, who was a journalist for NEXTA, one of the largest anti-government media outlets, was … Read more
The 41-year-old politician, who also led an anti-Lukasenko movement, was convicted by a court in Minsk. Dmitrijev admitted his guilt in that, according to the accusations, he participated in the anti-government movements, MTI wrote. After the controversial presidential election in August 2020, Belarus was swept by a wave of protests that lasted for months and … Read more
Russian tennis player Ekaterina Alexandrova lost to Victoria Azarenka from Belarus in the second round of the Miami Open. The match ended with the score 6:4, 2:6, 7:6 (7:5). In the third round, Azarenka will play with Linda Fruhvirtova from the Czech Republic. 27-year-old Alexandrova is in 54th place in the ranking of the Women’s … Read more