By Ben Aris in Berlin Incumbent Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko swept to a landslide victory in Sunday’s presidential election taking 86.82% of votes, according to preliminary results said the ...

Belarusian authorities have released an imprisoned U.S. citizen, a Belarusian journalist for a U.S.-funded media outlet and ...

MINSK, Belarus — Exit polls in Belarus late Sunday showed autocrat Alexander Lukashenko ... invasion of Ukraine and Lukashenko’s close relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Belarus held an orchestrated election over the weekend that the opposition and the EU rejected as a farce, extending authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko's more than three decades in power.

Aleksandr Lukashenko has awarded himself a seventh term as president of Belarus, with the West calling the so-called vote a ...

Andrey Kuznechyk, a journalist with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, was one of those released from a Belarusian prison after ...

Officially, there are five candidates, but 70-year-old Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled the country for more than three decades, will almost certainly retain his seat.

Belarusian leader and Russian ally Alexander Lukashenko extended his ... “You can congratulate the Republic of Belarus, we have elected a president,” Igor Karpenko, the head of the country ...

Opposition rejects the election as a farce after years of sweeping repression. The smiling face of President Alexander Lukashenko gazed out from campaign posters across Belarus on Sunday as the ...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko (on podium) was infected with coronavirus ... BelTA / Handout via REUTERS “You can congratulate the Republic of Belarus because we have elected a president,” ...

Belarusians have been voting in a closely managed presidential election that is all but certain to extend the rule of Alexander Lukashenko, in power since 1994 and Europe’s longest-serving leader. The ...