During the 2023 revolt by the Russian mercenary Wagner Group, Lukashenko acted as mediator between Putin and chief mutineer Yevgeny Prigozhin, allowing him to be portrayed as a peacemaker.

Russian Wagner PMC mercenaries in Mali, supporting Colonel Assimi Goita, who seized power in a coup, were caught in an ambush. According to RFI, the Malian military and Wagner mercenaries were ...

Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko was on Sunday night poised to extend his 31-year rule into his seventh term, having secured 87.6% of the vote, according to an exit poll. Lukashenko has led ...

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, 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 ...

Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko is on track to extend his more than three decades in power with 87.6 percent of the vote in a presidential election, according to an exit poll broadcast on ...

Europe’s longest-serving authoritarian leader, Belarus’ Alexander Lukashenko, is set to run for a seventh term on Jan. 26, 2025. And even before the first vote is counted, it can be stated ...

Robert Wagner isn’t slowing down at 95! The star of Hart to Hart, The Pink Panther and the Austin Powers movies — among dozens of other film and TV credits — got his Feb. 10 birthday off to ...

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 ...

President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, a close ally of Russia’s leader, Vladimir V. Putin, has been making signs of reaching out to the West. He is all but certain to win an election on Sunday.

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 ...

Belarusians voted on Sunday in an election set to hand President Alexander Lukashenko a seventh term, prolonging his three-decade authoritarian rule. Lukashenko — a 70-year-old former collective ...