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 country’s ...

By Mark Trevelyan (Reuters) -Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko was on track to extend his 31-year rule with a massive win in a presidential election on Sunday that Western governments rejected as ...

President of the Republic, Joseph Aoun, on Tuesday received a formal letter from Belarusian President, Alexander Lukashenko, delivered by Belarusian Foreign Minister, Maxim Ryzhenkov.

Officially, there are five candidates, but 70-year-old Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled the country for more than three decades, will almost certainly retain his seat.

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.

Belarusian leader and Russian ally Alexander Lukashenko extended his 31-year rule on Monday after electoral officials declared him the winner of a presidential election Western governments rejected as ...

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 ...

Tatsiana Kulakevich, University of South Florida (THE CONVERSATION) Europe’s longest-serving authoritarian leader, Belarus’ Alexander Lukashenko, is set to run for a seventh term on Jan. 26, 2025. And ...

In power since 1994, Alexander Lukashenko is assured of a new five ... he allowed Moscow to use Belarus as a launchpad for its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 - and paid 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 ...

Europe’s longest-serving authoritarian leader, Belarus’ Alexander Lukashenko, is set to run for a seventh term on Jan. 26, 2025. And even before the first vote is counted, it can be stated ...