MINSK, 26 January (BelTA) - No political party has ever been censored in Belarus, even the Belarusian Popular Front, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko told the media as he cast his vote in ...

According to Lukashenko's press service, the dictator greeted Dodon in his office at the Palace of Independence with an ...

Lukashenko, running virtually ... the Communist Party’s Sergei Syrankov, ... Lukashenko has released 250 political prisoners in recent months.

President of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko will hold a meeting with former Moldovan President Igor Dodon, who currently leads the Party ...

The fourth challenger, Hanna Kanapatskaya, managed 1.7% of the vote in 2020 and says she’s the “only democratic alternative to Lukashenko,” promising to lobby for freeing political prisoners ...

The country holds nearly 1,300 political prisoners, ... head of the Liberal Democratic Party, supported Lukashenko in 2020 and urged fellow candidates to “make Lukashenko’s enemies nauseous. ...

Now, with his political opponents either jailed or exiled, Lukashenko’s success on Sunday is widely believed to be all but guaranteed. The election was initially planned for August but was moved ...

At the same time, Lukashenko started reaching out to the West, for instance, in 2008 and 2015 ordering the release of political prisoners, after which the European Union (EU) in turn lifted some ...

President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, a close ally of Russia’s leader, Vladimir V. Putin, has been making signs of reaching out to the West. He is all but certain to win an election on Sunday.