(AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov) A woman covers herself with an old Belarusian national flag while shouting at police during a protest near the residence of President Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk, Belarus, ...

Rights groups, activists and independent media in Russia and Belarus endured increased government scrutiny, repressive laws and even were shut down and forced to operate from exile abroad.

Several players at Australian Open 2025 have been competing without a national flag, with world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka included.

Alexander Lukashenko is expected to extend his 31-year rule with 87.6% of the vote, according to an exit poll broadcast on ...

With many of his political opponents either jailed or exiled abroad, Alexander Lukashenko, dubbed “Europe’s last dictator,” is all but certain to add a seventh term.

and pushed for abandoning the country’s red-and-white national flag in favor of one similar to what it used as a Soviet republic. Belarus' top security agency kept its fearsome Soviet-era name ...