One of the biggest surprises of the night came when the legendary Jack Nicholson made an appearance. The 87-year-old actor, who doesn't make many public appearances these days, wore a sweet Yankees ...

Lukashenko took his first real step to standing down, Shraibman argues, in 2022 when the dictator introduced the All-Belarus People's Assembly, an extra-governmental body, and made himself its head.

Belarusian leader and Russian ally Alexander Lukashenko extended his 31-year rule on Monday after electoral officials declared him the winner of a presidential election Western governments rejected as ...

Putin ally Alexander Lukashenko just claimed yet another election victory. The rest of the world, including Australia, is not fooled. Lukashenko, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin ...

MINSK -Belarusian leader and Russian ally Alexander Lukashenko extended his 31-year rule on Jan 27 after electoral officials declared him the winner of a presidential election that Western ...

Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...

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.

Belarus strongman Alexander Lukashenko, in power since 1994, won a seventh consecutive term in office in an election denounced by the European Union and the exiled opposition. With his opponents ...

Belarusian President and presidential candidate Alexander Lukashenko visits a polling station during the presidential election in Minsk, Belarus January 26, 2025. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina ...

Alexander Lukashenko, 70, will continue his 30-year iron-fisted rule of Belarus after he rigged Sunday's poll. The dictator never faced proper opposition after he ruthlessly crushed protests ...

There were four candidates running against Lukashenko in this year's choreographed race - but all were loyal to him. In a symbolic but bizarre moment, the mustachioed strongman's little ...

Alexander Lukashenko, Europe’s longest-serving leader, has extended his 31-year rule in Belarus after being declared the winner of a presidential election that his exiled opponents and Western ...