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

Image The exiled Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, center, and others marching with a 1,000-foot-long historical Belarusian flag, now banned in Belarus, in Warsaw last month ...

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power for over 30 years, is poised to extend his rule in an election that concludes Sunday and that the opposition dismisses ...

(AP Photo, File) Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana ... herself with an old Belarusian national flag while shouting at police during a protest near the residence of President Alexander Lukashenko ...

Both said in the run-up to Sunday's vote that it could not be free and fair because independent media are banned in Belarus and all leading opposition figures have been jailed or forced to flee ...

Participants carried white-red-white opposition flags and chanted “Long Live Belarus!” as well as “Slava Ukraini!” Belarusians continue to stand bravely in defense of Ukraine 🇺🇦 ...

Opposition figures were ... to abandon its red-and-white national flag, in favour of one similar to that which it used as a Soviet republic. Belarus' top security agency propagates fear, retaining ...

Leading opposition figures have either been imprisoned or fled the country. Human rights activists say Belarus holds about 1,300 political prisoners, including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales ...

Belarus’s opposition, the United States ... Lukashenko held a referendum that changed Belarus’s white-and-red flag to one closely resembling the old Soviet design. He told World War II ...

The country’s economy is largely state-planned and Mr Lukashenko scrapped Belarus’ white-red-white flag in the 1990s – which has since become the symbol of the opposition. Mr Lukashenko ...