Here's what to know about Belarus, its election and its relationship with Russia: Belarus was part of the Soviet Union until its ... Lukashenko, a former state farm director, was first elected ...

Here's what to know about Belarus, its election and its relationship with Russia: ‘Europe’s last dictator' and his reliance on Russia Belarus was part of the Soviet Union until its collapse in ...

Has ruled Belarus ... Russia, including making the Russian language equal to Belarusian and replacing the national flag and state symbols with ones similar to those of the former Soviet Union.

Source: ISW Quote from ISW: "Moscow’s effort to de facto annex Belarus through the Union State ... to attack Russia. Alexander Lukashenko, the self-proclaimed Belarusian President, echoed Putin’s ...

"Moscow’s effort to de facto annex Belarus through the Union State framework, while incomplete, has already achieved significant gains, requiring NATO to reevaluate the implications of Russia ...

Her partner Biser Dzhambazov, 43, from Harrow, north London, and Orlin Roussev, 46, from Great Yarmouth, have admitted being part of the three-year plot. Ivanova has claimed she was deceived, ...

Map locates Transnistria ... were part of the Soviet Union, first broke away to form a renegade state in the early 1990s, the region boasted it would become a Russian-speaking version of ...

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Belarus was part of the Soviet Union until ... allied with Moscow and Russian President Vladimir Putin — himself in power for a quarter century. Lukashenko, a former state farm director, was ...

The last time Belarus ... of the Soviet Union, he has restored Soviet-style controls on the economy, discouraged use of the Belarusian language in favor of Russian, and pushed for abandoning the ...