Belarus' 2020 election, which was also called a sham by dissenters, triggered months of unprecedented protests in the country. Lukashenko has been in power since 1994 and has relied on subsidies ...

President Aleksandar Vučić said the protesters were backed by Western countries he did not name, and said they wanted to ...

Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, Belarus’s autocratic president and Russia’s closest ally, has taken steps to soften his country’s ...

“The trauma of the 2020 protests was so deep that Lukashenko ... The European Union rejected the election in Belarus on Sunday as illegitimate and threatened new sanctions.

Meanwhile, Belarus is holding its national election on Sunday. President Alexander Lukashenko ... are calling the election a ...

Belarus' opposition activists and Western officials on Monday denounced an orchestrated election that extends ... one in 2020 that triggered months of protests that were unprecedented in the ...

Officials say that Russia and Belarus will hold a joint military exercise in September, part of efforts by the two neighbors ...

Alexander Lukashenko will soon begin his seventh term as president of Belarus. The official result of the 26 January election gave him 86.8 per cent of the vote, following an election held in a ...

The timing of the 2025 presidential elections in Belarus was unusual in that it shortened Lukashenko’s presidential term by six months. Shortening the term certainly did not prevent the Belarusian ...

In this episode of The Conversation Weekly, we speak to three experts who have studied protests ... Belarus erupted into unrest after Alexander Lukashenko, the longtime authoritarian leader of the ...