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Linoy Ashram competes in the hoop event of the rhythmic gymnastics individual final at the 2019 European Games in Minsk on June 23, 2019. (Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP)
June 23, 2019, 11:11 pm
Rhythmic gymnast Linoy Ashram snags two golds at European Games
Olympic medal hopeful also wins two silver medals in Minsk competition
By TOI staff
Author Boris Fishman (Stephanie Kaltsas)
April 25, 2019, 9:20 pm
Food-centric memoir explores emotional hunger of a Soviet Jewish emigré family
Author Boris Fishman shares real and metaphoric recipes for healing multigenerational trauma and strained relationships as he recalls his family’s journey from Belarus to the US
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Jewish gravestones piled in a heap at the Brest Fortress in Belarus. (photo credit: Ilan Ben Zion/Times of Israel staff)
February 22, 2019, 12:43 pm
Remains of hundreds of slain victims discovered at former Belarus Jewish ghetto
Bodies of men, women and children found with gunshot wounds to their skulls; Nazis killed 800,000 Jews in the country during WWII
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Jews and non-Jews in Vitebsk, Belarus waiting to enter the city’s newly inaugurated synagogue in October, 2017. (Courtesy of the Jewish Community of Vitebsk)
November 3, 2017, 10:22 pm
Marc Chagall’s Belarus hometown celebrates first synagogue opening in a century
Before the Holocaust, there were 64 synagogues in Vitebsk, with more than half the city’s population Jewish
By JTA
Illustrative photo of a Jewish cemetery (Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland)
August 26, 2017, 3:28 am
Belarus court authorizes building apartments atop Jewish cemeteries
Judge approves construction in eastern city of Gomel, saying authorities lack jurisdiction to take any action
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Violinist Yevgeny Kutik performs at Temple Emanuel in Newton, Massachusetts, on December 16, 2016 (Leah Kleiman)
February 18, 2017, 4:37 am
‘Refugee’ violinist blends Russian-Jewish roots with modern tones
Yevgeny Kutik’s family fled the USSR’s institutionalized anti-Semitism with a suitcase of sheet music when he was 5. Now he tours the free world with a century-old violin
By Matt Lebovic
In this file photo taken on Friday, May 9, 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, flanked by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, left, and Federal Security Service Chief Alexander Bortnikov, right, arrives on a boat after inspecting battleships during a navy parade marking Victory Day in Sevastopol, Crimea. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, File)
August 12, 2016, 3:59 am
Tough talk between Russia, Ukraine heats up Crimea stalemate
Kiev puts military on alert after Moscow charges it sent ‘saboteurs’ to carry out attacks in contested peninsula
By NATALIYA VASILYEVA
Heinrich Himmler with his daughter Gudrun ca. 1941 (Vanessa Lapa’s 'The Decent One' via JTA)
August 1, 2016, 9:36 pm
Himmler’s diary discovered in archive in Russia
Nazi SS leader recorded ‘effectiveness’ of the diesel engines used to gas prisoners at the Sobibor death camp
By JTA
File: Participants at Limmud FSU's first-ever conference in Belarus, which took place in 2013 in the city of Vitebsk. (Courtesy)
May 15, 2016, 1:47 am
Belarus capital receives first Limmud Jewish learning event
The fledgling Jewish community in ‘Europe’s last dictatorship’ is making a comeback, say organizers
By JTA
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is seen on a large screen, speaking to media at a polling station after voting during presidential elections in Minsk, Belarus, late Sunday, October 11, 2015. (Photo by AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
October 12, 2015, 4:05 pm
Observers question landslide Belarus election win
Critics say there were ‘problems’ in fifth consecutive victory for ‘Europe’s last dictator,’ Alexander Lukashenko
By Anna MALPAS and Tatiana Kalinovskaya
A pro-Russian armed man in military fatigues stands guard outside the security service (SBU) regional building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Slavyansk, April 25, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)
June 22, 2015, 12:46 pm
EU extends sanctions against Russia by 6 months
European embargo hits oil and banking sectors to force Moscow to withdraw support for Ukraine rebels
By AFP
(Clockwise, from center) US President Barack Obama, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande, British Prime Minister David Cameron, Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, European Council President Donald Tusk, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper attend a working dinner at a G7 summit at the Elmau Castle near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, southern Germany, on June 7, 2015 (AFP/POOL/STEPHEN CROWLEY)
June 8, 2015, 9:56 am
Focus at G7 turns to global jihadist threat
Iraqi PM scheduled to discuss US-led campaign against Islamic State; Russia’s Putin excluded from gathering over Moscow’s polices on Ukraine
By AFP
Ukrainian soldiers ride armored vehicles to Debaltseve, eastern Ukraine, Donetsk region, on February 1, 2015. (AFP/Oleksander Stashevsky)
February 12, 2015, 5:29 pm
Ukraine Jews cautiously optimistic on Russian ceasefire
Chief rabbi ‘hopes for best’ following peace talks, but claims only border shutdown will pressure sides to achieve ‘lasting peace’
By JTA
A pro-Russian rebel mans a weapon mounted on a pickup truck in the town of Vuhlehirsk, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, February 10, 2015 (photo credit: AP /Vadim Braydov)
February 11, 2015, 5:05 am
Top US officials back $1 billion lethal aid to Ukraine
Move comes as Congress pushes for tougher stance against Russian-supported rebels ahead of peace summit in Minsk
By Donna Cassata and Deb Riechmann
Ukrainian servicemen smoke cigarettes during a pause in a patrol on the border of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions near the town of Debaltseve on September 5, 2014. (Anatoli Stepanov/AFP)
February 11, 2015, 12:40 am
Fighting intensifies in Ukraine ahead of peace talks
Obama urges both sides to refrain from hostilities, calls for diplomatic solution to conflict
By PETER LEONARD
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