Belarusian authorities have released an imprisoned U.S. citizen, a Belarusian journalist for a U.S.-funded media outlet and ...

The White House said Wednesday that President Trump secured the release of at least three people jailed in Belarus, including ...

With many of his political opponents either jailed or exiled abroad, Alexander Lukashenko, dubbed “Europe’s last dictator,” ...

Belarus is unlikely to enter Russia's war against Ukraine anytime soon, as doing so could seriously undermine the country's ...

President Aleksandar Vučić said the protesters were backed by Western countries he did not name, and said they wanted to ...

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BRATISLAVA, Feb 10 2025 (IPS) - In the months leading up to presidential elections at the end of January, Belarus’s authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko ordered the release of hundreds of ...

Workers and students across Belarus declared strikes on Monday, heeding a call for a national strike to try to force authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko to resign. Police used stun grenades ...

Belarus on Sunday held an orchestrated election virtually guaranteed to give its 70-year-old autocrat, Alexander Lukashenko, yet another presidential term on top of his three decades in power.

The E.U. has called Sunday’s election a sham. Lukashenko, running virtually unopposed, said he was “too busy” to even campaign.

The smiling face of President Alexander Lukashenko gazed out from campaign ... Opposition leader calls election ‘a senseless farce’ Opposition leader-in-exile Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, who fled ...