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.

The acclamation of Alexander Lukashenko as Belarus president for a seventh straight term was confirmed on January 26. The ...

Trump, announcing the aid freeze on his first day in office, said all foreign assistance would be evaluated as to whether it ...

Earlier, the country's government resigned before the newly elected president in accordance with the Belarusian constitution ...

Aleksandr Lukashenko has awarded himself a seventh term as president of Belarus, with the West calling the so-called vote a ...

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko is all but certain to extend his more than three decades in power in ...

Last week, a man at an automobile plant said that he hadn’t been following an election campaign very closely because he’d ...

Britain and Canada have imposed sanctions targeting the regime of Belarus' dictator president, Alexander Lukashenko, ...

Belarusian leader and Russian ally Alexander Lukashenko extended his 31-year rule on Monday after electoral officials ...

Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko declared himself the winner in the country's so-called presidential elections, in ...