Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...

Alexander Lukashenko was reelected as president of ... Under Belarusian law, a candidate must secure over 50% of the vote to win the presidency. The election commission is expected to release ...

Belarus votes in orchestrated election all but certain to extend the rule of authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko TALLINN, Estonia -- Belarus votes in orchestrated election all but certain to ...

The Belarusian state news agency BelTA reported exit poll data on the evening of 26 January that predictably declared Alexander Lukashenko the winner of sham presidential "elections" with over 87% of ...

Lukashenko, in power since 1994, on brink of five more years Veteran leader rejects criticism over political prisoners EU and US say vote is neither free nor fair Rubio says Belarus releases a US ...

Jan. 27 (UPI) --Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko won re-election over the weekend in a vote that has been decried as a "sham" by the opposition and Western observers. Lukashenko ...

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko has extended his more ... in the history of the country of 9 million people. Over the following four years, more than 65,000 people were ...

Alexander Lukashenko was reelected as president of ... Under Belarusian law, a candidate must secure over 50% of the vote to win the presidency. The election commission is expected to release ...

Jan. 27 (UPI) --Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko won re-election over the weekend in a vote that has been decried as a "sham" by the opposition and Western observers. Lukashenko, known as ...