The smiling face of President Alexander Lukashenko gazed out from campaign posters across Belarus on Sunday as the country held an orchestrated election virtually guaranteed to give the 70-year-old ...

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko has extended his more than three decades in power in an orchestrated weekend election that the opposition and the European Union rejected as a ...

Belarusians are voting in a closely-managed presidential election that is all but certain to extend the one-man rule of ...

Alexander Lukashenko, Europe’s longest-serving leader, has extended his 31-year rule in Belarus after being declared the ...

The E.U. has called the election a sham, and President Alexander Lukashenko has said he’s “too busy” to even campaign.

Human rights groups and Belarusians say they see no signs that Alexander Lukashenko is preparing to loosen his iron grip on the state.

As an East African bloc urged an immediate ceasefire in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwandan-backed M23 rebels who ...

Ukraine's key reference point in relations with Belarus remains the Belarusian people, as restoring official ties after the ...

We all did a great job. We held the election in a way that no one did, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said at a meeting with representatives of religious denominations in Minsk on .

With many of his political opponents either jailed or exiled abroad, Alexander Lukashenko, dubbed “Europe’s last dictator,” is all but certain to add a seventh term.

The acclamation of Alexander Lukashenko as Belarus president for a seventh straight term was confirmed on January 26. The ...

The last time Belarus staged a presidential election in 2020, authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko was declared the winner with 80% of the vote. That triggered cries of fraud, months of ...