Belarus held an orchestrated election over the weekend that the opposition and the EU rejected as a farce, extending authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko's more than three decades in power.

MINSK, 14 February (BelTA) – Belarusian microelectronics has reserves to step up this year, to maximize production and increase exports, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said during a ...

Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...

MINSK, 24 January (BelTA) – The events of 2020 were a “wake-up call” for the Belarusian society and such things will never happen again, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he ...

Belarusian leader and Russian ally Alexander Lukashenko extended his 31-year rule on Monday after electoral officials declared him the winner of a presidential election Western governments rejected as ...

Alexander Lukashenko, Europe’s longest-serving leader ... now living in neighboring Lithuania, declined to call for public protests this time round. Instead, she asked Belarusians simply ...

Belarus on Sunday held an orchestrated election virtually guaranteed to give its 70-year-old autocrat, Alexander Lukashenko, yet another presidential term on top of his three decades in power.

Exiled Rival Accuses Lukashenko of Playing 'Game' With Prisoners ... "What in the democratic world you call elections has nothing in common with this event in Belarus. Because it's mostly like ...

They call the election a sham ... from being drawn into war. “It’s better to have a dictatorship like in Belarus than a democracy like Ukraine,” Lukashenko said in his characteristic ...