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

Belarusian leader and Russian ally Alexander Lukashenko extended his 31-year rule on Monday after electoral officials ...

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.

By Nataliya Vasilyeva When Aleksandr G. Lukashenko last ran for president of Belarus, the former Soviet republic he has led since 1994, he faced an unusual phenomenon: rival candidates who ...

On Monday, the British Foreign Office sanctioned a number of individuals and entities in Belarus in response to the ...

The presidential election in Belarus was organized at a high level and was held without disruptions, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he met with a delegation of the Pan-African ...

Europe’s longest-serving authoritarian leader, Belarus’ Alexander Lukashenko, is set to run for a seventh term on Jan. 26, 2025. And even before the first vote is counted, it can be stated ...

Although Lukashenko’s current term — his sixth — doesn't expire until the summer, he chose to bring the elections forward from August to January, which is bitterly cold in Belarus.

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.

Labanov, 24, credits the autocrat -- in power since 1994 -- for keeping "order" in the reclusive state, believing that if 2020 mass protests had toppled Lukashenko, Belarus would have suffered the ...

Exiled opposition calls Sunday's election a sham No sign of 70-year-old preparing to hand over power Lukashenko sends signal ... for a presidential election in Belarus on Sunday, but for the ...

Labanov, 24, credits the autocrat -- in power since 1994 -- for keeping "order" in the reclusive state, believing that if 2020 mass protests had toppled Lukashenko, Belarus would have suffered the ...