Poland is the largest haven for Belarusian exiles, and the country’s pre-1989 history of the anti-communist mobilization resonates well with those struggling for democracy now. Almost five years after ...

Congress budgeted at least $690 million on pro-democracy programs this year to counter authoritarian rule in eight countries considered by experts among the world's least free: Belarus ...

Belarusians began voting Sunday, with President Alexander Lukashenko expected to cruise to victory unchallenged for a seventh term, prolonging his three-decade authoritarian rule. Polls opened at ...

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

A former information minister for the brutal Yugoslav regime of Slobodan Milosevic, Serbian democracy has degraded ... as Aleksander Lukashenko’s Belarus, but neither as permissive as Viktor ...

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.

Belarusian authorities have released an imprisoned U.S. citizen, a Belarusian journalist for a U.S.-funded media outlet and ...

"We have a tough democracy in Belarus. We don't put pressure on anyone and we won't silence anyone," he told reporters after casting his vote in an election in which he is expected to cruise to ...

MINSK, 26 January (BelTA) - Belarus is more a democracy than European countries, international observer from Poland Krzysztof Tolwinski said on the air of the Belarus 1 TV channel, BelTA has learned.