On election day in Belarus, President Alexander Lukashenko hosted a four-hourlong press conference. He answered dozens of questions including those posed by Western journalists. A BBC reporter asked ...

MINSK, Belarus — Belarusians headed to the polls on Sunday in an election that has been widely decried by their country’s beleaguered opposition in exile as “non elections” and denounced by the ...

Ukraine's Foreign Ministry condemned the recent presidential election in Belarus, calling the vote "a farce" in a statement issued Jan. 27. Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko "won" a seventh ...

A demonstrator stands in front of riot police during a protest after polling stations closed in the presidential elections, in Minsk, Belarus, in August 2020. On Monday, Britain and Canada imposed ...

Belarus held an orchestrated election over the weekend that the opposition and the EU rejected as a farce, extending authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko's more than three decades in power.

Belarusians have been voting in a closely managed presidential election that is all but certain to extend the rule of Alexander Lukashenko, in power since 1994 and Europe’s longest-serving leader. The ...

Belarusian leader and Russian ally Alexander Lukashenko extended his 31-year rule on Monday after electoral officials declared him the winner of a presidential election that Western governments ...

Belarus’ opposition activists and Western officials on Monday denounced an orchestrated election that extends the more than three-decade rule of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko. The ...

MINSK, 9 August (BelTA) – 9 August was the main voting day in the Belarus presidential election, BelTA reports. The presidential election in Belarus is held on the basis of direct suffrage by secret ...