May 25, 2021 · Mr Lukashenko’s eagerness to use repression against his people and his unwillingness to give up power have already earned him a reputation as Europe’s last dictator. Last year he stole an...

On August 9, 2020, an unprecedented wave of protests swept across Belarus in the aftermath of a deeply flawed presidential election. The protects soon swelled into a nationwide pro-democracy movement that threatened to topple the regime of Belarus dictator Alyaksandr Lukashenka.

Jul 17, 2024 · LONDON — Alexander Lukashenko is a tyrant: The Belarusian dictator has repressed his people. He has thrown more than 1,400 political opponents in jail. Several senior officials have been driven to suicide or died in unexplained circumstances.

Aug 20, 2020 · Belarus’s Aug. 9 presidential election, expected to deliver Lukashenko a sixth consecutive term, has instead brought on an unprecedented political crisis. He claimed he received 80% of the vote....

Jan 26, 2025 · Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko is all but certain to extend his more than three decades in power in Sunday’s election that is rejected by the opposition as a farce after years of ... “It’s better to have a dictatorship like in Belarus than a democracy like Ukraine,” Lukashenko said in his characteristic ...

Nov 25, 2021 · With a grey comb-over hairstyle, chevron-shaped moustache and a strong rural accent, Alexander Lukashenko, a former collective farm manager-turned-minor Communist official, was the only...

May 22, 2023 · Massive demonstrations erupted after he stole an election in 2020; his government lashed out by jailing and torturing thousands of dissidents. Now Belarusians wonder whether bad health may be...

6 days ago · “They say that there is a dictatorship here, but I don’t think so — the reality in Belarus is completely different,” Krastyo Vrachev, an observer representing a fringe nationalist party ...

Jan 25, 2025 · Two decades after the United States declared Belarus “the last remaining true dictatorship in the heart of Europe,” Mr. Lukashenko is determined to put the 2020 election behind him and prove ...

In the years following, Belarusian President Aliaksandr Lukashenka liked to play up the idea of being the ‘last dictator’; in a 2012 interview he proclaimed ‘I am the last and only dictator in Europe. Indeed there are none anywhere else in the world … You came here and looked at a living dictator. Where else would you see one?