Then, while Belarusians were still voting, candidate Lukashenko gave a four-and-a-half hour press conference live on state TV. It was an opportunity to quiz him on the controversial vote which his ...

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 ...

Belarusians are voting in a presidential election on Sunday as President Alexander Lukashenko seeks a seventh mandate to rule. For the past 30 years, Lukashenko, 70, dubbed by many analysts as ...

MINSK, Belarus — Exit polls in Belarus late Sunday showed autocrat Alexander Lukashenko taking 87.6 percent of the vote in a presidential race denounced by the European Union as a “sham” and ...

In power since 1994, Alexander Lukashenko is assured of a new five-year term in a vote that the exiled opposition describes as a sham. It has called on Belarusians to tick a box that allows them ...