Russia has acted on a promise to send nuclear weapons to its ally and neighbour,after President Vladimir Putin announced the plan on state television in March.
Wimbledon will allow Russian and Belarusian players to compete as “neutral” athletes in the grasscourt grand slam this year.
It will be the first time since the mid-1990s that Moscow will have based nuclear arms outside the country.
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya,who fled to neighbouring Lithuania in 2020,said the verdict was punishment for her efforts to promote democracy.
The harsh punishment of human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski and three of his colleagues was in response to protests over the 2020 election result.
Russia launched 16 “kamikaze” drones into Ukraine,prompting early morning air raid sirens and directions for Kyiv residents to seek shelter.
Russia hit key infrastructure in and around Kyiv in a “kamikaze” drone attack right before Vladimir Putin landed in Belarus for talks.
Some media and observers alleged without offering evidence that Makei could have been poisoned by security agencies of Belarus’ main ally Russia.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the sanctions that it has attracted from the West are disrupting commodities markets. They are also creating opportunities.
The 24-year-old Russian Sofia Sapega was with her boyfriend Raman Pratasevich on a Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius in May 2021 when it was diverted to Minsk by Belarusian authorities.
The saboteurs drew inspiration from an earlier episode in Belarusian history,during World War II,when Belarusians opposed to the Nazi occupation blew up railway lines and train stations to disrupt German supply lines.