The demonstrations, which have left more than 1,300 people injured, have been fuelled by a young generation that believes the country's leadership is corrupt, self-serving and nepotistic.
The Zapad joint military exercise which began on Friday will involve drills in both Russia and Belarus as well as in the Baltic and Barents seas, the Russian defence ministry said.
It's now over eight months since British couple Lindsay and Craig Foreman were detained in Iran. Speaking to Sky News, their son Joe Bennett explains how the couple have been crammed into cells with more than 50 other prisoners, while suffering ...
Some 52 detainees of various nationalities, including the UK, were freed in what is the biggest pardoning of political prisoners so far by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled the country for 31 years.