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 ...

Rights groups, activists and independent media in Russia and Belarus endured increased government scrutiny, repressive laws ...

A total of 1,050,428 European residents have visited Belarus since 15 April 2022. Most travelers came from Belarus's ...

Human rights groups and Belarusians say they see no signs that Alexander Lukashenko is preparing to loosen his iron grip on the state.

MINSK -- "What's wrong with that cow?" Belarus's hard-line leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka asks a deeply-uncomfortable-looking official. "[It's] barely alive." The clip -- both humorous and chilling ...

Baerbock added that more than 1,200 people in Belarus remain in prison simply because they dared to speak out. "We will not forget them. All political prisoners must be released and the brutal ...

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-old ...

People voted for Aleksandr Lukashenko in the recent presidential election because they believe that the country is going in the right direction, State Secretary of the Belarus-Russia Union State ...

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power for over 30 years, is poised to extend his rule in an election that concludes Sunday and that the opposition dismisses as a ...

Meanwhile, Belarus is holding its national election ... that were unprecedented in the history of the country of 9 million people. The crackdown saw more than 65,000 arrests, with thousands ...

He explained that people arrived legally in Belarus from Afghanistan, Syria or Iraq and were then taken to the border with Poland for $8,000 to $12,000 (ca. €7,775 to 11,650).

"You know, what the Belarusian people are afraid of now is that Belarus might be given as a consolation prize to Putin," she said. "That at the moment of negotiation we might save Ukraine on some ...