The smiling face of President Alexander Lukashenko gazed out from campaign posters across Belarus on Sunday as the country held an orchestrated election virtually guaranteed to give the 70-year-old ...

A journalist was among at least three people jailed in Belarus who the White House said Wednesday were released following a ...

Kengerli is still in police custody and reportedly ill ... Like many of the young protesters in Minsk and across Belarus this month, Raisky and the Kengerlis were born during Lukashenko’s ...

Rights groups, activists and independent media in Russia and Belarus endured increased government scrutiny, repressive laws and even were shut down and forced to operate from exile abroad.

The list of what police view as "extremist material," which is regularly updated by the Interior Ministry, includes numerous websites of independent media that are banned in Belarus. Simply ...

Human rights groups and Belarusians say they see no signs that Alexander Lukashenko is preparing to loosen his iron grip on ...

Belarus has “unilaterally” freed an American ... months of mass protests unprecedented in Belarusian history. Police said the officer was shaken up in the crash but uninjured.

People are reportedly downloading VPN services ahead of Sunday's elections to be able to navigate potential disruptions. Here's what we know so far.

With many of his political opponents either jailed or exiled abroad, Alexander Lukashenko, dubbed “Europe’s last dictator,” is all but certain to add a seventh term.

An curved arrow pointing right. Polish police fired water cannons at hundreds of migrants stranded at its border checkpoint with Belarus. The European Union has accused the Belarusian government ...

Britain and Canada have imposed sanctions targeting the regime of Belarus' dictator president, Alexander Lukashenko, following his disputed election over the weekend to a seventh term.

Belarus police crackdown on mass protests against strongman president after election Belarus police fired water cannons, tear gas and stun grenades in a crackdown on protests that erupted on ...