Belarusians are voting in a closely-managed presidential election that is all but certain to extend the one-man rule of ...

Belarus' top security agency kept its fearsome Soviet-era name of the KGB, and it's the only country in Europe to keep the death penalty, with executions carried out with a gunshot to the back of the ...

Panasyuk, recently freed after four years in prison, described torture and forced psychiatric treatment in custody ...

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 ...

At today’s meeting with representatives of Belarus’ religious denominations, President Aleksandr Lukashenko declared his readiness to ...

Belarus under Lukashenko has become embroiled in the battle between NATO-backed Western Europe and Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

Human rights groups and Belarusians say they see no signs that Alexander Lukashenko is preparing to loosen his iron grip on the state.

The acclamation of Alexander Lukashenko as Belarus president for a seventh straight term was confirmed on January 26. The ...

The 2025 election campaign has completed a whole cycle of major changes in Belarus. In his talk with Alfa Radio, a deputy of the House ...

“It seems to me that we are seeing the beginning of the same trend that was in Russia and is beginning to infect the ...

Belarus' 2020 election, which was also called a sham by dissenters, triggered months of unprecedented protests in the country. Lukashenko has been in power since 1994 and has relied on subsidies and ...

Belarus plans to make it to the top 50 countries in terms of GDP per capita by 2040 (at purchasing power parity), Belarusian ...