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

Belarusians began voting Sunday, with President Alexander Lukashenko expected to cruise to victory unchallenged for a seventh term, prolonging his three-decade authoritarian rule. Polls opened at ...

MINSK, 17 January (BelTA) – As he summed up economy performance in 2024, Prime Minister of Belarus Roman Golovchenko explained by how much the real monetary income of the population increased ...

Tikhanovskaya told AFP in an interview this month she wanted dissidents to be ready for an opportunity for change in Belarus ... since 2020 out of a population of nine million. They will not be able ...

This is partly because during World War II, Nazis killed some 2.23 million people in Belarus — a quarter of its population, including many non-Jews, Dorn said — a number too great to ignore.