Lukashenko and his security forces quickly and rather brutally cracked down. There were some 30,000 arrests, including of key opposition figures. Others were forced into exile. Now, if you fast ...

MINSK, 15 January (BelTA) – There will be no extra money to finance the Armed Forces, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said on 15 January as he was receiving a report on the 2025 state ...

Belarus held an orchestrated election over the weekend that the opposition and the EU rejected as a farce, extending authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko's more than three decades in power.

The last time Belarus staged a presidential election in 2020, authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko was declared the winner with 80% of the vote. That triggered cries of fraud, months of ...

missiles and air defense platforms. Such actions have resulted in blowback for Lukashenko and Belarus. In August 2024, the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control slapped sanctions on ...

Belarusians have been voting in a closely managed presidential election that is all but certain to extend the rule of Alexander Lukashenko, in power since ... “We’re asking those forced to take part ...