The Ukrainian town of Pripyat has been left to decay for nearly four decades after it was abandoned overnight after the 1986 ...

Belarus' authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko is all but certain to extend his more than three decades in power in ...

January 2025 in Belarus is not one of them. Drive around Minsk and you'll see no big billboards promoting the portraits of candidates. There is little campaigning. The grey skies and sleet of a ...

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 ...

BRUSSELS — The European Union rejected the election in Belarus on Sunday as illegitimate and threatened new sanctions. Belarus held an orchestrated vote virtually guaranteed to give 70-year-old ...

Over the four years of this five-year period, 17.2 million square meters of housing was commissioned, 2% above the target,” ...

who was 39 when he won the first national election after Belarus gained independence from the Soviet Union. Criticism of the strongman is banned. Most people AFP spoke to in Minsk and other towns ...

Russia, meanwhile, uses Belarus as a staging ground for its invasion. At the border near the town of Połowce, a 5.5-meter (18-foot) steel barrier strung with razor wire and topped by security ...

There are times in history when countries are gripped by election fever. January 2025 in Belarus is not one of them. Drive around Minsk and you'll see no big billboards promoting the portraits of ...