As Belarus votes amid repression, what drives Alexander Lukashenko, the president likely to secure a seventh term.

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko is all but certain to extend his more than three decades in power in ...

Polish police have found no evidence that the director of the Center for Eastern European Studies, Jan Malicki, was beaten. He simply fell down the stairs, being completely drunk, but explained the ...

Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko declared himself the winner in the country's so-called presidential elections, in ...

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power for over 30 years, is poised to extend his rule ...

The head of state gave the corresponding instruction at the polling station on 26 January. Thus, foreign journalists got an ...

Under his regime, he has consolidated power and made Belarus a police state and dictatorship, his critics contend. By Monday, the capital Minsk and other parts of the country were mostly quiet, a ...

President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, a close ally of Russia’s leader, Vladimir V. Putin, has been making signs of reaching out ...

At least four were killed, including Alyaksandr Taraykouski, who was shot in the chest while approaching police with his hands raised. But don’t confuse Belarus’s likely quiet for a lack of ...

the largest ever seen in Belarus. Authorities responded with a sweeping crackdown in which over 65,000 people were arrested, thousands were beaten by police and hundreds of independent media ...