It will be a catastrophe if our population doesn’t grow. They say that Belarus is small, that we don’t have population. What is 9.5 or 10 million [people]? It’s nothing. The first stage ...

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 ...

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

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.

The UN estimates that some 300,000 Belarusians have left the country since 2020 -- mostly to Poland and Lithuania -- out of a ...