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

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 ...

Belarusians began voting Sunday, with President Alexander Lukashenko expected to cruise to victory unchallenged for a seventh term, prolonging his three-decade authoritarian rule. Polls opened at ...

Belarus will develop those industries where it has competencies and capacities, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said during a visit to Integral on , BelTA has learned.

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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 ...

Lukashenko, 70, has cast himself as a leader ... A close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, he allowed Moscow to use Belarus as a launchpad for its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in ...

Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko met with Permanent Representative of Belarus to the United Nations Valentin Rybakov ...

FILE - In this photo released by Belarus’ Presidential Press Service, President Alexander Lukashenko, center, visits the Minsk Automobile Plant in Minsk, Belarus, Jan. 21, 2025.

told Newsweek the deal cemented Lukashenko's regime "as a militarized satellite of Russia." The ISW assessment released Wednesday said that the Kremlin wants to tighten its grip on Belarus by ...

Labanov, 24, credits the autocrat -- in power since 1994 -- for keeping "order" in the reclusive state, believing that if 2020 mass protests had toppled Lukashenko, Belarus would have suffered the ...

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 ...