Nikolai Lukashenko, a "copy of his father" Alexander, appears to be being groomed to take power in Belarus.Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko's youngest son, Nikolai, has been appearing ...

The European Parliament condemned Belarus' treatment of Viktar Babaryka, a dissident who is to spend 14 years in prison for challenging authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko.

The law theoretically applies to any former president and members of his or her family. In reality, it only is relevant to the 69-year-old Lukashenko, who has ruled Belarus with an iron fist for ...

Lukashenko’s support for the war in Ukraine has led to the rupture of Belarus’ ties with the U.S. and the EU, ending his gamesmanship of using the West to try to win more subsidies from the ...

Alexander Lukashenko’s stubborn grip on the Belarusian economy plunged the potato-happy country into a spud shortage this spring. Critics of the authoritarian ruler, who in January grabbed a seventh ...

Belarus has scheduled its presidential election for Jan. 26, a move that is almost certain to extend the long-standing rule of authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko.. The timing of this ...

On January 26, Belarus will hold a presidential election that will almost certainly give authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka a seventh term in power. Belarus's opposition has been gutted and ...

This week, in commemoration of the second anniversary of Alexander Lukashenko’s fraudulent election, the United States announced new visa restrictions on 100 regime officials and their ...

Lukashenko attends a news briefing following talks with Putin in Minsk on May 24, 2024 [Sputnik/Mikhail Metzel/Pool via Reuters] Hostage of his own system.

The brief mutiny by the Wagner mercenary force last month has given Belarus’s autocratic leader Aleksandr G. Lukashenko an opening to upend his subservient relationship with Moscow.