Alexander Lukashenko, Europe’s longest-serving leader, has extended his 31-year rule in Belarus after being declared the ...

Europe’s longest-serving leader won re-election in a contest widely believe to have been rigged. The result cements the power ...

Belarus held an orchestrated election over the weekend that the opposition and the EU rejected as a farce, extending President Lukashenko's more than 30 years in power.

Newsweek reached out to the Belarusian Foreign Ministry via email for comment. Lukashenko—Russian President Vladimir Putin's closest ally—said he had won 86 percent of the vote in Sunday's ...

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

We didn’t kick anyone out of the country,” he told a rambling news conference that lasted more than four hours. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and Lukashenko take part in a signing ...

President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, a close ally of Russia’s leader, Vladimir V. Putin, has been making signs of reaching out to the West. He is all but certain to win an election on Sunday.

Asked about the jailing of his opponents, Lukashenko had told a news conference on Sunday that they had chosen their own fate. “Some chose prison, some chose exile, as you say. We didn’t kick anyone ...

President Alexander Lukashenko has won a a seventh term in office in Belarus, according to the country’s Central Election Commission. According to a statement by the Central Election Commission ...

MINSK, 26 January (BelTA) - Donald Trump can take an “out-of-the-box” step on the settlement in Ukraine, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko told the media on 26 January, BelTA has learned.