Drive around Minsk and you'll see no big billboards promoting the portraits of candidates ... presidential election is not in doubt. Alexander Lukashenko, once dubbed "Europe's last dictator ...

A huge portrait of Lenin dominates the room in ... Presidential incumbent Alexander Lukashenko appears to have achieved hero status too. "We call him Bat'ka," says Sergei Syrankov, referring ...

When Alexander Lukashenko emerged victorious ... Their faces are almost entirely absent from the streets, while Lukashenko portraits adorn many public spaces in Belarus. Those who tried to ...

With many of his political opponents either jailed or exiled abroad, the 70-year-old Lukashenko is back on the ballot, and ...

70-year-old Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is back on the ballot. When the election concludes on Sunday, he’s all but certain to add a seventh term as the only leader most people in ...

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko is all but certain to extend his more than three decades in power in Sunday’s election that is rejected by the opposition as a farce after years ...

Officially, there are five candidates, but 70-year-old Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled the country for more than three decades, will almost certainly retain his seat.

The last time Belarus staged a presidential election in 2020, authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko was declared the winner with 80 per cent of the vote. That triggered cries of fraud ...

Is Nikolai Lukashenko's increased media presence merely electioneering for his father, or are there political plans for the young man?Image: Natalya Talanova/TASS/dpa ...

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. Now ...