Unpredictable, authoritarian and staunchly pro-Russian, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko casts himself as a plain-spoken strongman and "president of the ordinary people". Described in the ...

Aleksandr Lukashenko has awarded himself a seventh term as president of Belarus, with the West calling the so-called vote a ...

BBC journalist Steve Rosenberg provoked Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko with a pointed question. The correspondent asked how the recent elections in Belarus could be deemed democratic when ...

Last week, a man at an automobile plant said that he hadn’t been following an election campaign very closely because he’d ...

Belarusian leader and Russian ally Alexander Lukashenko extended his 31-year rule on Monday after electoral officials ...

Many Western leaders are decrying Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko's re-election victory Sunday, calling it a sham ...

Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko was on track to extend his 31-year rule with a massive win in a presidential election on Sunday that Western governments rejected as a sham. An exit poll ...

In a bid to extend his 31-year tenure, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko faced the media's scrutiny on Sunday during a tense election process labeled by critics as oppressive and undemocratic.

The smiling face of President Alexander Lukashenko gazed out from campaign posters across ... ballots — a response to the opposition's call in 2020 for voters to take pictures to make it more ...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Sunday (January 26) described his country as a “brutal democracy” and said political prisoners could be released if they request pardons, while dismissing ...

Minsk (AFP) – Belarus autocrat Alexander Lukashenko, in power since 1994 ... to be "shown to the people" last November -- when photos of her were released in a first sign of life for over ...