On Wednesday 4th March, Alexander Lukashenko received Ali Reza Sanei, Iran’s ambassador to Belarus. Earlier, on behalf of the Belarusian leadership, the diplomat was presented with official condolences on the death of Ayatollah Khamenei. During a personal meeting with the…
The detention on March 5, 2026, by Hungarian counterterrorism units of a transport carrying valuables belonging to the Ukrainian state bank Oschadbank is one of the most dramatic incidents in the recent history of diplomatic relations in Central and Eastern…
From the tragic morning over Tehran in January 2020, through the mass delivery of kamikaze drones, to the recognition of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization, Kyiv’s relations with Tehran have gone from complex dialogue to open…
On February 18, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree imposing personal restrictive measures (sanctions) on the self-proclaimed president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko. Black Sky examines how painful these sanctions will be for the Belarusian dictator and what their real…
Since August 2025, the Russian authorities have been consistently disrupting Telegram’s operations: first, they disabled voice and video calls, then slowed down multimedia, cracked down on tools for bypassing the blockade, and on February 10, 2026, moved on to a…
