Officials in Belarus are pushing for a law requiring citizens to supply the state with DNA samples, but RFE/RL’s Belarus Service has learned that authorities in the tightly controlled country have already been quietly compiling a DNA database of people viewed with suspicion by the state.
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Images of an Afghan delegation in tribal clothing visiting a food manufacturer in central Belarus sparked an outcry online, then photos of the visit disappeared from Belarusian websites.
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A visit to a weapons manufacturing plant by Belarusian leader Aleksandr Lukashenko on August 18 highlighted an assault rifle Minsk is claiming was made entirely inside Belarus.
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Amid a spate of tunnels being dug from Belarus into the EU, border authorities say Minsk is dismissing intelligence alerting it to migrant tunnel construction.
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Opposition Belarusian politician Alyaksandr Milinkevich, who ran for president in 2006, has died following an illness aged 79, according to a social media post by his stepson.
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