Even theatre companies and sportspeople have had to flee the country and continue their struggle for freedom in Belarus from ...

Alexander Lukashenko, often referred to as "Europe's last dictator," has ruled Belarus for over three decades. His tenure, ...

The smiling face of President Alexander Lukashenko ... political prisoners but warning supporters against “excessive initiative.” Opposition leader-in-exile Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, who fled ...

Belarus’ opposition activists and Western officials have denounced the reelection of Alexander ... President Vladimir Putin, whom Lukashenko depends on for subsidies, as well as political ...

Britain's foreign office on Monday said it had sanctioned six Belarus individuals and three defence sector firms, a day after a "sham election" in which autocrat Alexander Lukashenko won a seventh ...

Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko declared himself the winner in the country's so-called presidential elections, in which zero members of the country's opposition were allowed to take part.

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko ... to release political prisoners. The countries said they were imposing co-ordinated sanctions on Mr Lukashenko’s government.

27 (UPI) --Belarusian President Alexander ... said that Lukashenko won 87% of the vote while his closest opponent received 3%. Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, Belarus's leading opposition leader now in exile, ...

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.

The Russian and Chinese leaders congratulated Belarus President Alexander ... more than 1,200 political prisoners, with around 300 released in pre-vote pardons by Mr Lukashenko.

Alexander Lukashenko, Europe’s longest-serving leader, has extended his 31-year rule in Belarus after being declared the winner of a presidential ... Tsikhanouskaya, a political novice who ...