With Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's first term more than a year past expired, the U.S. and Russia are both pressuring the country to hold new elections.

Belarus and Iran have developed a growing strategic partnership since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in ...

Human rights groups and Belarusians say they see no signs that Alexander Lukashenko is preparing to loosen his iron grip on ...

When President Donald Trump froze foreign assistance for 90 days, he argued that such a drastic step was needed to eliminate ...

MINSK, 3 February (BelTA) – Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko ... and promoting its political and socio-economic development. “Nowadays, the Communist Party of Vietnam continues ...

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 ...

Putin has also deployed Russian tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus. Ukraine's Foreign Ministry said Lukashenko's re-election had been "transformed into a political show for a single person. An ...

As I wrote at the time, despite their violent suppression, the protests of 2020 were a moment of hope for Belarus and its information climate: there was a sense that Lukashenko’s grip on the political ...

His nearest rival on the ballot, Liberal Democratic Party leader Oleg Gaidukevich ... about the frequent imprisonment of his political opponents, Lukashenko said they had “chosen” their ...

"The world has become well-accustomed to Lukashenko's cynical pretence of ... organisation the Viasna Human Rights Centre, over 1,250 political prisoners are incarcerated in Belarus, the statement ...

Despite Mr Lukashenko’s denial, opponents and political analysts interpret his prisoner pardons as a move to start repairing ties with the West, and his latest re-election as a bid to restore ...