Longtime Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has been declared winner of a disputed presidential election, securing a seventh straight term, according to the country’s electoral body.

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 ...

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 smiling face of President Alexander Lukashenko gazed out from campaign posters across Belarus as the country held an orchestrated election guaranteed to give the 70-year-old autocrat another ...

Alexander Lukashenko is expected to extend his 31-year rule of Belarus with 87.6% of the vote in Sunday's presidential election, according to an exit poll. Officials said turnout was 81.5% in the ...

The former Soviet Republic of Belarus, wedged between Russia and Ukraine, chooses the president this Sunday, and the country's longtime ruler and Kremlin ally, Alexander Lukashenko, is all but ...

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 ...

Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko has been re-elected with 88 per cent of the vote, according to state TV. During the previous election in 2020, Mr Lukashenko used his security forces to ...

FILE - In this photo released by Belarus’ Presidential Press Service, President Alexander Lukashenko, center, visits the Minsk Automobile Plant in Minsk, Belarus, Jan. 21, 2025.