Aleksandr Lukashenko has awarded himself a seventh term as president of Belarus, with the West calling the so-called vote a sham and introducing additional sanctions. Belarusian political observer ...

MINSK, Belarus — Exit polls in Belarus late Sunday showed autocrat Alexander Lukashenko taking 87.6 percent of the vote in a presidential race denounced by the European Union as a “sham” and ...

Alexander Lukashenko, Europe’s longest-serving leader, has extended his 31-year rule in Belarus after being declared the winner of a presidential election that his exiled opponents and Western ...

And inevitability. The outcome of the 2025 presidential election is not in doubt. Alexander Lukashenko, once dubbed "Europe's last dictator," who has ruled Belarus with an iron fist for more than ...

Longtime Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has been declared winner of a disputed presidential election, securing a seventh straight term, according to the country’s electoral body.

Self-proclaimed Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko has pardoned 23 people who supposedly "committed extremist crimes". Among them are three women and 20 men; 13 people are over 50 years old, ...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko casts his ballot at a polling station in Minsk, the country's capital, on Sunday. According to a statement by the Central Election Commission, the ...

Jan. 27 (UPI) --Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko won re-election over the weekend in a vote that has been decried as a "sham" by the opposition and Western observers. Lukashenko ...