Over the past 30 years, not a single election campaign in Belarus has been held in peace and quiet. Since 1994, when ...

As Belarus votes amid repression, what drives Alexander Lukashenko, the president likely to secure a seventh term.

President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, a close ally of Russia’s leader, Vladimir V. Putin, has been making signs of reaching out ...

After breaking away from a crumbling Soviet Union in the early 1990s, Belarus became increasingly aligned with Russia, unlike ...

Belarusians are very responsible when it comes to choosing their country's future, Chairperson of the Council of the Republic ...

This definitively confirms the alternative-less nature of Belarus’s current political system," state CEI analysts in a report dedicated to the upcoming elections. "Independent media in Belarus ...

The West looks at Belarus only as a trophy, a source of resources - territorial, material, human ones. This is what happened ...

Belarus heads to the polls on 26 January. Very little stands in the way of Putin ally President Alexander Lukashenko from his ...

Thirty years ago, independent Belarus and its army began to take their first steps towards revival. The Armed Forces were weak, and ...

CORRECTS to say 20 men instead of 30 in paragraph 5 Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Saturday freed 23 political prisoners, state media reported, the latest mass pardoning ahead of ...

Belarus' authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko pardoned 20 more people that rights activists describe as political prisoners, a statement on the president's website said Saturday. The ...

Kanstantsin Staradubets is a Belarusian human rights activist and coordinator of the Viasna Human Rights Center.