Human rights groups and Belarusians say they see no signs that Alexander Lukashenko is preparing to loosen his iron grip on the state.

Rights groups, activists and independent media in Russia and Belarus endured increased government scrutiny, repressive laws and even were shut down and forced to operate from exile abroad.

The acclamation of Alexander Lukashenko as Belarus president for a seventh straight term was confirmed on January 26. The ...

Belarus’ opposition activists and Western officials have denounced an orchestrated election that extended the over three-decade rule of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko ...

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

Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko has been in power for more than 30 years and just won another election widely ...

He still did not dare to surpass his ‘big brother’, but came close to his result: Vladimir Putin, according to the official version, gained 87.28% in last year’s elections.” ...

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

By Ben Aris in Berlin Russia blocked a record 417,000 websites in 2024, according to the independent monitoring group ...

Georgia’s IT sector, once a fledgling niche, has experienced a meteoric rise, driven by the relocation of international companies and foreign developers amid the ongoing war in Ukraine. Yet, this rapi ...

Last week, a man at an automobile plant said that he hadn’t been following an election campaign very closely because he’d ...

“The trauma of the 2020 protests was so deep that Lukashenko ... subsidies from the Kremlin. He spoke of Russian nuclear weapons deployed in Belarus as a guarantee of peace, and said he would ...