The polls, broadcast on state television, suggested Lukashenko, the 70-year-old former collective farmer who has ruled Belarus with an iron fist for more than 30 years, would win a seventh term.

Mr Lukashenko – a 70-year ... Belarus’s last presidential election in 2020 ended with nationwide protests, with the opposition and the West saying Mr Lukashenko rigged the vote. The regime ...

Belarusians have been voting in a closely managed presidential election that is all but certain to extend the rule of Alexander Lukashenko, in power since 1994 and Europe’s longest-serving leader.

Alexander Lukashenko is expected to extend his 31-year rule of Belarus with ... Ms Tsikhanouskaya, who fled Belarus under government pressure, told The Associated Press that Sunday's election ...

The last time Belarus ... Lukashenko regime fears its own people,” the State Department said last week. After casting his ballot Sunday, Lukashenko told journalists he did not care whether the West ...

Belarusians began voting today, with President Alexander Lukashenko expected to cruise to victory unchallenged for a seventh term, prolonging his three-decade authoritarian rule. Lukashenko, a 70 ...