As Belarus votes amid repression, what drives Alexander Lukashenko, the president likely to secure a seventh term.

Belarusian President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, Europe’s brutal last dictator, has been named 2021’s Person of the Year by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) in recognition of ...

Aleksandr Lukashenko has awarded himself a seventh term as president of Belarus, with the West calling the so-called vote a sham and introducing additional sanctions. Belarusian political observer ...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko extended his 31-year rule yesterday after electoral officials declared him the winner of a presidential election that Western governments rejected as a sham. ...

Belarus autocrat Alexander Lukashenko, in power since 1994, won a seventh consecutive term in office Sunday in an election denounced by the European Union and the exiled opposition. With his ...

Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has dismissed western condemnation of his country's presidential elections, as he was on course to extend his 31-year-reign of the ex-Soviet state. An exit poll ...

Ukraine's Foreign Ministry condemned the recent presidential election in Belarus, calling the vote "a farce" in a statement issued Jan. 27. Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko "won" a seventh ...

During a telephone conversation, the first President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, has congratulated the President of Belarus, Aleksandr Lukashenko, on his election victory, sb.by reports ...

[Photo: Reuters/Evgenia Novozhenina) Belarusian leader and Russian ally Alexander Lukashenko extended his 31-year rule on Monday after electoral officials declared him the winner of a presidential ...

Jan. 28 (UPI) --Britain and Canada have imposed sanctions targeting the regime of Belarus' dictator president, Alexander Lukashenko, following his disputed election over the weekend to a seventh term.

Belarusian President and presidential candidate Alexander Lukashenko visits a polling station during the presidential election in Minsk, Belarus Jan 26, 2025. [Photo/Agencies] MINSK - Incumbent ...