Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko has extended his more than three decades in power in Sunday’s ...

VILNIUS – Europe must keep a place for Belarus in the "European family", Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys said on Tuesday. Speaking at the Kosciuszko Forum in Poland, Budrys said that ...

The E.U. has called Sunday’s election a sham. Lukashenko, running virtually unopposed, said he was “too busy” to even campaign.

Musk-led cuts to the US foreign aid agency have impacted rights groups, independent media, and election monitoring campaigns ...

BRUSSELS – The European Union rejected the election in Belarus on Sunday as illegitimate and threatened new sanctions.

Belarus’ opposition activists and Western officials have denounced the reelection of Alexander Lukashenko to serve his seventh five-year presidential term. The 70-year-old leader began his iron-fisted ...

With many of his political opponents either jailed or exiled abroad, Alexander Lukashenko, dubbed “Europe’s last dictator,” is all but certain to add a seventh term.

discouraged use of the Belarusian language in favour of Russian, and pushed for abandoning the country’s red-and-white national flag in favour of one similar to what it used as a Soviet republic.

An open admirer of the Soviet Union, he has restored Soviet-style controls on the economy, discouraged use of the Belarusian language in favor of Russian, and pushed for abandoning the country’s ...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, nicknamed "Europe's last dictator," is projected to secure victory in Sunday's election, securing a seventh term and extending his rule beyond three ...