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 ...

Mr. Sannikov said that there are at least 10,000 political prisoners in Belarus today. Mr. Lukashenko’s dictatorship survives because he has transformed Belarus into a submissive client state of ...

"It’s better to have a dictatorship like in Belarus than a democracy like Ukraine," Lukashenko said. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Danielle Wallace is a breaking news and ...

President of the European Parliament (EP) Roberta Metsola called the presidential "elections" in Belarus scheduled for January 26 a fiction. "My message to the people of Belarus is: keep strong, we ...

MINSK, 24 January (BelTA) - Belarus will preserve the dictatorship of order, justice, kindness and respect for people, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he attended the final ...

The acclamation of Alexander Lukashenko as Belarus president for a seventh straight term was confirmed on January 26. The electoral authorities announced that the man known as “Europe’s last dictator” ...

“Listen – better the kind of dictatorship that there is in Belarus than the kind of democracy there is in Ukraine.” New US president Donald Trump has pledged to push Russia and Ukraine to ...

Polling stations have opened across Belarus for the country’s presidential election, with five candidates registered, including long-time incumbent A ...

“It’s better to have a dictatorship like in Belarus than a democracy like Ukraine,” Lukashenko said in his characteristic bluntness. His reliance on support from Russian President Vladimir ...

“It’s better to have a dictatorship like in Belarus than a democracy like Ukraine,” Lukashenko said in his characteristic bluntness. Fearing a repeat of election unrest His reliance on ...