All of Lukashenko's opponents are in prison or in exile. On the streets of Minsk, imposing Soviet-era buildings -- covered in posters for the election with Lukashenko's face -- leave no doubt as ...

There are times in history when countries are gripped by election fever. January 2025 in Belarus is not one of them. Drive around Minsk and you'll see no big billboards promoting the portraits of ...

Aleksandr Lukashenko was first elected President of Belarus 31 years ago: on July 10th, 1994. On the air of SBTV’s Letuchka ...

Today is exactly two days since the death of political prisoner, famous Belarusian artist Ales Pushkin. On July 11, 2023, he ...

S tanding in front of his security council this week, Belarus’s strongman president Alexander Lukashenko pointed to a map that set alarm bells off across Europe. The map, which divided Ukraine ...

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.

Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power for 31 years, ... A huge portrait of Lenin dominates the room in which I'm interviewing Sergei Syrankov, the party chief.

FILE - A man uses a slipper to slap a poster that shows a portrait of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko as people gather signatures in support of potential presidential candidates in ...

Imprisoned Belarus activist resurfaces He was last heard from in February 2023. Since then, authorities haven't released any information about his condition and barred his lawyer from visits.

I’m going to tell you how the people in charge of my country made the truth a crime. Alexander Lukashenko, Belarus’s longtime president, has spent about three decades destroying our country ...

Lukashenko may be in power in Minsk, but after 2020, it's really Putin calling most of the shots. HUANG: And Charles, like, what is the view of the U.S. and other Western countries on all of this?