Alexander Lukashenko, Europe’s longest-serving leader, has extended his 31-year rule in Belarus after being declared the winner of a presidential election that his exiled opponents and Western ...

Officials say that Russia and Belarus will hold a joint military exercise in September, part of efforts by the two neighbors ...

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 ...

The move comes after Belarus' authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko extended his more than three-decade rule in last month's election that the opposition has dismissed as farce. Lukashenko, ...

Russia’s upper house of parliament, the Federation Council, ratified a security guarantees treaty with Belarus, strengthening ...

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.

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 task of the Expert Council at the Council of the Republic is to make sure new legislative acts keep things organized internally, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he received ...

Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...

Belarusian leader and Russian ally Alexander Lukashenko extended his 31-year ... “You can congratulate the Republic of Belarus, we have elected a president,” Igor Karpenko, the head of the ...

15 political prisoners released on eve of sham elections in Belarus Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko released 15 more political prisoners ahead of the country’s sham presidential ...

Longtime Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has been declared winner ... “You can congratulate the Republic of Belarus, we have elected a president,” Igor Karpenko, head of the commission ...