When Lukashenko was declared the winner with 81 percent, Belarusians took to the streets en masse. The brutal suppression of protests and severe political repression, unprecedented even for ...

Belarus and Russia concluded an interstate treaty on security guarantees within the framework of the Union State. In March ...

Human rights group Viasna, which is labelled as an extremist organisation, says there are around 1,250 political prisoners; Lukashenko denies there are any. Ivan Kravtsov, secretary of the ...

MINSK, January 28. /TASS/. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko promised to declare an immediate political amnesty, should at least one political prisoner be found in the republic ...

MINSK, November 22. /TASS/. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said that there are no political prisoners in his country since the country’s law has no articles to prosecute people ...

Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Heorhii Tykhyi has called self-proclaimed Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko a "cockroach" after he referred to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a ...

MINSK, 4 March (BelTA) – Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko has signed the treaty ... case of encroachments on the security of either party and the Union State as a whole.

Self-proclaimed Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko has admitted in Moscow that the Russian Oreshnik missile system is still not in Belarus, despite January claims that it would arrive "very ...

The US is reportedly negotiating a deal to ease sanctions on Belarusian banks and potash in exchange for the release of political prisoners… Beyond discouraging defectors, Lukashenko also seeks to ...