The smiling face of President Alexander Lukashenko gazed out from campaign posters across Belarus on Sunday as the country held an orchestrated election virtually guaranteed to give the 70-year-old ...

Kengerli is still in police custody and reportedly ill ... Like many of the young protesters in Minsk and across Belarus this month, Raisky and the Kengerlis were born during Lukashenko’s ...

Rights groups, activists and independent media in Russia and Belarus endured increased government scrutiny, repressive laws and even were shut down and forced to operate from exile abroad.

The list of what police view as "extremist material," which is regularly updated by the Interior Ministry, includes numerous websites of independent media that are banned in Belarus. Simply ...

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

Belarus has “unilaterally” freed an American ... months of mass protests unprecedented in Belarusian history. Police said the officer was shaken up in the crash but uninjured.

In Belarus, strongman leader Alexander Lukashenko has been in power for more than 30 years. Over the weekend, Lukashenko ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Polish police fired water cannons at hundreds of migrants stranded at its border checkpoint with Belarus. The European Union has accused the Belarusian government ...

Britain and Canada have imposed sanctions targeting the regime of Belarus' dictator president, Alexander Lukashenko, following his disputed election over the weekend to a seventh term.

With many of his political opponents either jailed or exiled abroad, Alexander Lukashenko, dubbed “Europe’s last dictator,” is all but certain to add a seventh term.

Belarus police crackdown on mass protests against strongman president after election Belarus police fired water cannons, tear gas and stun grenades in a crackdown on protests that erupted on ...

Police conducted large-scale drills before the ... s support for the war in Ukraine has led to the rupture of Belarus’ ties with the U.S. and the EU, ending his gamesmanship of using the West ...