Lukashenko has orchestrated a ruthless crackdown on opponents ... Tikhanovskaya told AFP in an interview this month she wanted dissidents to be ready for an opportunity for change in Belarus. But she ...

President Alexander Lukashenko will be running to secure a seventh term, hoping to extend his 30-year rule over Belarus.

They are just playing in this campaign. They are not competing with Lukashenko," she said in a phone interview. But while the outcome is not in doubt, Lukashenko faces major challenges in ...

In the documentary "In Search of Peace" aired by the Belarus 1 TV channel Press Secretary of the Belarusian President Natalya Eismont revealed which hall of the Palace of Independence housed the ...

Experts and insiders say Lukashenko is driven by a “thirst ... He later repeated this publicly in a recent [2024] interview with Russian propagandist Vladimir Solovyov.” As Belarus heads ...

Lukashenko’s press office again presented the pardons as “demonstrations of mercy.” Exiled opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya in a Reuters interview published earlier accused ...

In an interview with Reuters at the World Economic ... when they are reappointing themselves," she said. Last weekend Lukashenko pardoned the latest batch of 23 people convicted of "extremist ...

By deploying Russian nuclear weapons to Belarusian territory, self-proclaimed President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko is ...

Lukashenko denies there are any political prisoners. Tsikhanouskaya, the head of the exiled opposition, told Reuters in an interview this week that Lukashenko was playing his "usual game" of drip ...

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

Five candidates' names will appear on the ballot for a presidential election in Belarus on Sunday, but for the past 31 years there has only been one winner.