Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko declared himself the winner in the country's so-called presidential elections, in which zero members of the country's opposition were allowed to take part.

The protests presented Lukashenko with a dilemma ... Belarusian territory to launch the invasion of Ukraine. During the 2023 revolt by the Russian mercenary Wagner Group, Lukashenko acted as ...

Marina Adamovich has had no news of her husband -- the imprisoned Belarusian opposition figure Mikola Statkevich.Adamovich, ...

Tech has been one of the few relatively liberalised sectors in ex-Soviet Belarus's state-dominated economy. It experienced a ...

The protests were ultimately crushed by riot police with mass arrests and brute force. The European Union then refused to recognise ... of her detention in 2023. She was held for ten days with ...

They call the election a sham — much like the last one in 2020 that triggered months of protests ... in Minsk on Nov. 23, 2023. (Konstantin Zavrazhin/AFP/Getty Images) Lukashenko's iron ...

Ihor Kyzym, Ambassador-at-Large for Belarus of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador of Ukraine to Belarus (2017-2023), believes that the Belarusian democratic movement has been somewhat ...

Lukashenko hosted the Wagner group leader and his fighters in Belarus before Prigozhin was killed in a plane crash in 2023. Despite western ... see few chances of mass protests following this ...

The turning point came in September 2020 when police raided the software company PandaDoc and arrested several employees, after the group's boss voiced his support for anti-Lukashenko protests.

Belarusian Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski, head of the Viasna human rights group, sits in a defendants’ cage in a court in Minsk, Belarus, on Jan. 5, 2023 ... him survive the 2020 protests.