Wearing a black beanie hat and glasses, Belarusian engineer Vladimir Labanov said he will cast his vote this weekend for the man that has led his Moscow-allied country since long before he was born: ...

January 2025 in Belarus is not one of them. Drive around Minsk and you'll see no big billboards promoting the portraits of candidates. There is little campaigning. The grey skies and sleet of a ...

Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power for 31 years, is set for a new five-year term in an election that an exiled opposition leader describes as "a farce".

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko is all but certain to extend his more than three decades in power in ...

The last time Belarus staged a presidential election in 2020, authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko was declared the winner with 80% of the vote. That triggered cries of fraud, months of protests ...

Their faces are almost entirely absent from the streets, while Lukashenko portraits adorn many public spaces in Belarus. Those who tried to challenge him at the ballot in 2020 are held in prison ...

Drive around Minsk and you'll see no big billboards promoting the portraits of candidates ... election is not in doubt. Alexander Lukashenko, once dubbed "Europe's last dictator," who has ruled ...

Their faces are almost entirely absent from the streets, while Lukashenko portraits adorn many public spaces in Belarus. Those who tried to challenge him at the ballot in 2020 are held in prison ...