Within a year of assuming office, Lukashenko held a referendum that changed Belarus’s white-and-red flag to one closely ... An exiled member of an elite unit targeting gangs in 2019 admitted ...

After years of the U.S. trying to isolate Russia’s closest ally, a meeting with Belarus’s president points to better ...

Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, Belarus’s autocratic president and Russia’s closest ally, has taken steps to soften his country’s isolation from the West. By Andrew Higgins and Tomas Dapkus Belarus ...

WHILE being new to flag football with only seven months of experience, the Elite Starz made a mark at the USA Flag Worlds Championship Tournament 2025. Both 12u and 10u teams competed and ...

Belarus has "unilaterally" freed an American woman from detention, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Sunday, as the Kremlin-allied country held an orchestrated election poised to give ...

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

An American is one of three hostages released from Belarus, the White House has announced. The identity of the hostage has not been released as the person wishes to remain private, U.S. Envoy for ...

MINSK, Belarus — Exit polls in Belarus late Sunday showed autocrat Alexander Lukashenko taking 87.6 percent of the vote in a presidential race denounced by the European Union as a “sham” and ...

Lukashenko has led Belarus since 1994 and as voting began earlier in the day, another 5 years in power has seemed practically certain. More than four years after the last election, opposition ...

In Belarus, Vasyl and his family have recently been put on an official list of families in a "socially dangerous situation," a status that could result in him and his wife losing their parental ...

and pushed for abandoning the country’s red-and-white national flag in favor of one similar to what it used as a Soviet republic. Belarus' top security agency kept its fearsome Soviet-era name of the ...