The other candidates running against Lukashenko ... state-planned and Lukashenko scrapped Belarus's white-red-white flag in the 1990s -- which has since become the symbol of the opposition.

Alexander Lukashenko, Europe’s longest-serving leader, has extended his 31-year rule in Belarus after being declared 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 Western governments rejected as ...

Franak Viačorka, senior adviser to Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the Belarusian opposition politician who ran against Lukashenko in 2020, said that Belarus' leader had allowed the release so sanction ...

Exiled opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who ran against Lukashenko in 2020, dismissed Sunday's vote as a "farce". "What is happening in Belarus today is a farce," she told reporters in ...

As an East African bloc urged an immediate ceasefire in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwandan-backed M23 rebels who ...

files with ICC complaint against Belarus for systematic crimes against journalists. Lukashenko claims seventh term amid Western condemnation, sanctions Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko ...

Polls opened at 8am in Minsk’s first presidential vote since Lukashenko suppressed mass protests against ... Belarus’s white-red-white flag in the 1990s – which has since become the symbol ...

Lukashenko -- a 70-year-old former collective farm boss -- has been in power in Belarus since 1994. It will be Minsk's first presidential vote since he suppressed mass protests against his rule in ...