President of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko has congratulated President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Masoud Pezeshkian, and the people ...

Burakova, who formerly headed a legal aid group in St. Petersburg backed by exiled tycoon-turned-opposition-figure Mikhail ...

Belarus autocrat Alexander Lukashenko, in power since 1994, won a seventh consecutive term in office Sunday in an election denounced by the European Union and the exiled opposition. With his ...

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 ...

Many Western leaders are decrying Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko's re-election victory Sunday, calling it a sham ...

Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko was on track to extend his 31-year rule with a massive win in a presidential election on Sunday that Western governments rejected as a sham. An exit poll ...

Belarusian President and presidential candidate Alexander Lukashenko visits a polling station during the presidential election in Minsk, Belarus Jan 26, 2025. [Photo/Agencies] MINSK -- Incumbent ...

The E.U. has called Sunday’s election a sham. Lukashenko, running virtually unopposed, said he was “too busy” to even ...

President Alexander Lukashenko in 2020. (Maxim Guchek/BelTA Pool Photo via AP, File) President Alexander Lukashenko has won a a seventh term in office in Belarus, according to the country’s ...

Artyom Shraybman, a Belarus expert with the Carnegie Russia and Eurasia Center, told Reuters that Lukashenko plans to use the pardons and his election victory to try to ease his total dependence on ...