After years of the U.S. trying to isolate Russia’s closest ally, a meeting with Belarus’s president points to better ...

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.

and pushed for abandoning the country’s red-and-white national flag in favor of one similar to what it used as a Soviet republic. Belarus' top security agency kept its fearsome Soviet-era name of the ...

Sergei Syrankov is the leader of the Communist Party of Belarus. In the town of Vitebsk I sit in on one of his campaign events. In a large hall Mr Syrankov addresses a small audience, flanked by his ...

(AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov, File) A woman covers herself with an old Belarusian national flag while shouting at police during a protest near the residence of President Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk, ...

and pushed for abandoning the country’s red-and-white national flag in favor of one similar to what it used as a Soviet republic. Belarus' top security agency kept its fearsome Soviet-era name ...

Voting started following a period of almost non-existent election fever. In the capital Minsk, there’s an almost total absence of billboards promoting the candidates and there has been little in the ...

The leader also pushed the country to abandon its red-and-white national flag, in favour of one similar to that which it used as a Soviet republic. Belarus' top security agency propagates fear ...

January 2025 in Belarus is not one of them ... In a large hall Mr Syrankov addresses a small audience, flanked by his party's emblem, the hammer and sickle. His campaign slogan is unusual to ...

The country’s economy is largely state-planned and Mr Lukashenko scrapped Belarus’ white-red-white flag in the 1990s – which has since become the symbol of the opposition. Mr Lukashenko ...