Near a border checkpoint between Belarus and Ukraine, anti-tank spikes and concrete pyramids block what was once a bustling ...

Novaya Guta is one of almost a dozen border crossings left deserted since Russia invaded Ukraine via Belarus in February ... in the colours of the Ukrainian flag can be seen.

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.

At dusk on Christmas day, 1991, the iconic hammer-and-sickle flag of the erstwhile Soviet Union ... into Russia and fourteen independent countries - Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia ...

Here's what to know about Belarus, its election and its relationship with Russia: Belarus was part of the Soviet Union until its collapse in 1991 ... abandoning the country’s red-and-white national ...

Belarus was part of the Soviet Union until its collapse ... language in favor of Russian, and pushed for abandoning the country’s red-and-white national flag in favor of one similar to what ...

Belarus was part of the Soviet Union until its collapse ... in favour of Russian. The leader also pushed the country to abandon its red-and-white national flag, in favour of one similar to that ...

He won Belarus's first democratic presidential election ... The following year he strong-armed lawmakers into holding a referendum on making Russian an official language, changing the flag to resemble ...