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Lukashenko takes credit for release of Polish minority leader

Borys has been under house arrest since March. Artur Reszko/PAP

Aleksander Lukashenko, the Belarusian strongman, has claimed that it was thanks to his decision that a Polish minority leader was released in March after a year spent in prison and moved to house arrest.

Belarusian authorities destroy Polish war grave

The Belarusian authorities have destroyed a Polish war grave containing the remains of four underground resistance soldiers killed by the Germans in 1943.

Polish diplomat summoned by Belarusian foreign ministry

Polish charge d'affaires in Belarus Marcin Wojciechowski has been summoned by the Belarusian foreign ministry, the Polish foreign ministry told PAP on Thursday.

Polish activist released from Belarusian prison

Andżelika Borys, the leader of the Union of Poles in Belarus (ZPB), has been released from a Belarusian prison, the spokesman for the Polish foreign ministry told PAP on Friday.

Belarus detains another Polish minority official - website

Belarusian authorities have detained the deputy head of the Union of Poles in Belarus (ZPB), Renata Dziemiańczuk, a Belarusian website has reported.

Activists of Polish minority in Belarus cannot be held hostage - dep FM

Poland’s deputy foreign minister has described as “totally unacceptable” a decision by the Belarusian authorities to prolong the detention of a leading member of Belarus’s Polish community for another three months.

Białystok opens Belarusian refugee centre

An aid centre for Belarusian refugees from Alexander Lukashenko’s regime and Belarusians of Polish descent was opened on Monday in Białystok, north-eastern Poland.

Poland pays high price for supporting Belarusians - dep FM

A Polish deputy foreign minister has stated that Poland has been paying a high price for supporting Belarusians and that the Belarusian president has declared Poland an enemy.

Belarusian-Polish activists freed after Kazakh ex-president's appeal - Minsk

The spokesperson for Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus, has attributed the freeing of three Belarusian-Polish activists to the intervention of Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakhstan's first independent president.

Polish and Belarusian societies must not be antagonised - president

Poland will not allow antagonising of the Polish and Belarusian nations in spite of the Belarusian government's false accusations against Poles living in Belarus, President Andrzej Duda said after a meeting with Belarusian Poles in Warsaw on Thursday.

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