Officials say that Russia and Belarus will hold a joint military exercise in September, part of efforts by the two neighbors ...

Washington's adversaries are "unquestionably leveraging the detention of U.S. citizens for political gain," an expert told ...

Around 1,400 political prisoners – including doctors, journalists and scientists – are jailed in the country, according to ...

Alexander Lukashenko, the autocratic leader of Belarus who claimed victory in another election derided as a sham, played a ...

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.

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.

Belarusian authorities have released an imprisoned U.S. citizen, a Belarusian journalist for a U.S.-funded media outlet and ...

In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko shake hands prior to a meeting of the Supreme ...

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 ...

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.

The smiling face of President Alexander Lukashenko gazed out from campaign posters across Belarus on Sunday (January 26, 2025) as the country held an orchestrated election virtually guaranteed to ...

The timing of the 2025 presidential elections in Belarus was unusual in that it shortened Lukashenko’s presidential term by six months. Shortening the term certainly did not prevent the Belarusian ...