Belarus has “unilaterally” freed an American woman from detention, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Sunday, as the Kremlin-allied country held an orchestrated election poised to ...

“You can congratulate the Republic of Belarus, we have elected a president,” Igor Karpenko, the head of the country’s Central Election Commission, told a news conference in the early hours ...

Many voters intend to shun presidential elections in Belarus, according to research carried out by Chatham House. The number of people who say they plan to cast their vote at the polls has dropped ...

Alexander Lukashenko, Europe’s longest-serving leader, has extended his 31-year rule in Belarus after being declared the winner of a presidential election that his exiled opponents and Western ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Belarus' leader, Alexander Lukashenko, apologized over the phone in early 2022 for his ...

BRUSSELS, Jan 28 (Reuters) - The European Commission proposed on Tuesday imposing tariffs on more agricultural products and certain nitrogen-based fertilisers from Russia and its ally Belarus to ...

Estimated number of Belarusians to have left the country since 2020. But the prospects for Belarus’s democratic movement in this ‘managed succession’ scenario are also uncertain. Despite state ...

The analysts at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) point out that Russia's attempts to de facto annex Belarus pose strategic risks to the United States, NATO and Ukraine. Source: ISW Quote from ...

Other high-profile political prisoners have also been held incommunicado in Belarus, including Maria Kolesnikova, who was part of Babaryko's 2020 presidential campaign team until his arrest.

The EU's foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, said the election had been a blatant affront to democracy, while German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock posted on X that "the people of Belarus had ...

(Photo by Natalia KOLESNIKOVA / AFP) Near a border checkpoint between Belarus and Ukraine, anti-tank spikes and concrete pyramids block what was once a bustling road between two peaceful neighbours.