Russian, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko casts himself as a plain-spoken strongman and "president of the ordinary ...

In 2023, Lukashenko brokered a deal with then mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin to end his brief uprising against Russia's military leadership, saving Putin some embarrassment. That same year Putin ...

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

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

When Alexander Lukashenko emerged victorious from Belarus's presidential election in 2020, protesters came out on the streets ...

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

Nearly five years ago, as massive anti-regime protests rocked Minsk amid accusations of election rigging by longtime authoritarian ruler Alexander Lukashenko, Putin’s public backing proved ...

Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus, has criticized Trump's inauguration speech, the executive orders he signed, ...

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia praised President Trump’s second inauguration, but the American leader did not return the compliment. By Anton Troianovski Reporting from Berlin President ...

Pavel Latushko: No one will win. Lukashenko will personally fabricate the results. I’d bet he wants to have 1% more than Putin got in the Russian elections. Putin received 87.3%. Lukashenko would like ...

Newly-inaugurated Donald Trump has warned President Putin that he will face taxes, tariffs and sanctions if Russia does not sign up to a deal to end the war in Ukraine. His new statement comes ...