"As long as he has strength, Alexander Grigoryevich will govern ... is largely planned by the state -- with Lukashenko, a former collective farm boss, having shunned reforming swathes of the ...

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko on Wednesday pardoned 32 more ... A former Communist farm leader once dubbed "Europe's last dictator", Lukashenko has ruled the country since 1994 with ...

UN independent rights experts on Thursday condemned what they said was “coercive psychiatric treatment” inflicted on dozens of critics of the government in Belarus since presidential elections ...

The 2020 crackdown Lukashenko's brutal crackdown after the disputed election led to over 65,000 arrests between 2020-25. Thousands told of being beaten by police, opposition figures were jailed or ...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko casts his ballot at a polling site during voting in presidential elections on Sunday in Minsk, Belarus. The Associated Press The smiling face of President ...

According to Lukashenko, the opposition council is comprised of the former "trough eaters" [people from circles of power, a reference to George Orwell’s Animal Farm]. "There are the formers ...

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko was sworn in Tuesday to a seventh term, and he mocked those who derided him as “Europe’s last dictator” by saying his country has more ...

TASS/. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Monday that he may "very soon" be succeeded by another person in the presidential office. "I am rooted in this country and it is rooted in me.

When asked by the BBC's Sarah Rainsford about the latest British measures, President Alexander Lukashenko said: "You can go choke on your sanctions... You are American lapdogs!" Read more ...