Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko has extended his more than three decades in power in an orchestrated ...

Rights groups, activists and independent media in Russia and Belarus endured increased government scrutiny, repressive laws and even were shut down and forced to operate from exile abroad.

Belarusians are voting in a closely-managed presidential election that is all but certain to extend the one-man rule of ...

Trump could grant Lukashenka sanctions relief without demanding any meaningful concessions in return. The EU must continue to ...

The Belarusian power grid continues operating in parallel with Russia’s power grid within the framework of the Union State of ...

The goal for this year and the next five years is to fulfill the task set by the head of state to develop sports ...

President Alexander Lukashenko, often dubbed "Europe's last dictator," offered to free Anastassia Nuhfer whose arrest was ...

MINSK (Reuters) -Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said on Sunday that some of his political opponents had "chosen" to go to prison as he cast his vote in a election that ...

Belarusian Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski, head of the Viasna human rights group, sits in a defendants’ cage in a court in Minsk, Belarus, on Jan. 5, 2023. In this photo released by Belarus’ ...

Aleksandr Lukashenko has awarded himself a seventh term as president of Belarus, with the West calling the so-called vote a ...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is projected to take victory in the virtually uncontested election by a greater ...

Exit polls in Belarus late Sunday showed autocrat Alexander Lukashenko taking 87.6 percent of the vote in a presidential race ...