Alexander Lukashenko was declared the winner of the Belarus election, in which only four token rivals stood against him - and ...

Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko declared himself the winner in the country's so-called presidential elections, in ...

Alexander Lukashenko, Europe’s longest-serving leader, has extended his 31-year rule in Belarus after being declared the ...

Alexander Lukashenko will soon begin his seventh term as president of Belarus. The official result of the 26 January election gave him 86.8 per cent of the vote, following an election held in a ...

Rights groups, activists and independent media in Russia and Belarus endured increased government scrutiny, repressive laws and even were shut down and forced to operate from exile abroad.

The acclamation of Alexander Lukashenko as Belarus president for a seventh straight term was confirmed on January 26. The ...

Hundreds of Belarusians, led by opposition leader-in-exile Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya ... on mass street protests in the wake of the last disputed presidential election in 2020 led to many being ...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is projected to take victory in the virtually uncontested election by a greater ...

A former high-ranking Belarusian diplomat told the AP that Nuhfer's arrest was tied to the 2020 protests. These followed the last disputed election, which Tsikhanouskaya was widely seen to have won.

Ahead of the election, Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya declared that neither ... The previous presidential election in 2020 sparked the largest protests in Belarus’s history.

Although official figures said Lukashenko won by a landslide in 2020, Tsikhanouskaya claimed victory and spearheaded huge protests, with hundreds of thousands taking to the streets to demand the ...