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

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Friday accused the United States of trying to drive a wedge between Russia and ...

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

Officially, there are five candidates, but 70-year-old Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled the country for more than three decades, will almost certainly retain his seat.

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Belarus on Sunday held an orchestrated election virtually guaranteed to give its 70-year-old autocrat, Alexander Lukashenko, yet another presidential term on top of his three decades in power.

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The E.U. has called Sunday’s election a sham. Lukashenko, running virtually unopposed, said he was “too busy” to even campaign.

The White House said Wednesday that President Trump secured the release of at least three people jailed in Belarus, including ...

Eventually the wave of repression extinguished the protests and, with help from Russia, Mr Lukashenko clung to power. The UK, the European Union and the United States refuse to recognise him as the ...

Belarus held an orchestrated election over the weekend that the opposition and the EU rejected as a farce, extending authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko's more than three decades in power.

Belarus ‘unilaterally releases ... sanctions Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko declared himself president for his seventh consecutive term after holding a presidential election on ...