Serious human rights violations remain rampant in Belarus, United Nations investigators said Friday, adding that some of the ...

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

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Aleksandr Lukashenko has awarded himself a seventh term as president of Belarus, with the West calling the so-called vote a sham and introducing additional sanctions. Belarusian political observer ...

MINSK, Belarus — Exit polls in Belarus late Sunday showed autocrat Alexander Lukashenko taking 87.6 percent of the vote in a presidential race denounced by the European Union as a “sham” and ...

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.

Alexander Lukashenko, once dubbed "Europe's last dictator," who has ruled Belarus with an iron fist for more than 30 years, will be declared the winner and secure a seventh term in office.

Belarus under Lukashenko has become embroiled in the battle between NATO-backed Western Europe and Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Meanwhile, Belarus’ record on human rights – and its complicity in Russia’s ...

Andrey Kuznechyk, a journalist with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, was one of those released from a Belarusian prison after ...

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

Longtime Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has been declared winner ... “You can congratulate the Republic of Belarus, we have elected a president,” Igor Karpenko, head of the commission ...

When Alexander Lukashenko emerged victorious from Belarus's presidential election in 2020, protesters came out on the streets to accuse him of election fraud and call for his resignation. But as ...