With many of his political opponents either jailed or exiled abroad, Alexander Lukashenko, dubbed “Europe’s last dictator,” ...

Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, taking two hours to address the media at a press conference on election day, spoke at ...

By Andrew Higgins Europe’s longest-serving leader, President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko of Belarus, cruised to his seventh election victory in a row on Sunday in a contest that his exiled opponents ...

Uzbekistan Airways airliners have changed their routes when flying to Europe to avoid Russian and Belarusian airspace as a ...

The European Union has rejected the election in Belarus as illegitimate and threatened new sanctions BRUSSELS -- The European Union rejected the election in Belarus on Sunday as illegitimate and ...

in power since 1994 and Europe’s longest-serving leader. The last time Belarus held a presidential election in 2020, Lukashenko claimed a landslide victory with more than 80% of the vote.

Belarus’ top security agency kept its fearsome Soviet-era name of the KGB, and it’s the only country in Europe to keep the death penalty, with executions carried out with a gunshot to the back ...

He said Belarus was willing to talk to the European Union, but not to "bow before you or crawl on our knees". Lukashenko faced no serious challenge from the four other candidates on the ballot.

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko extended his more than three decades in power in Sunday’s orchestrated election that the opposition and the European Union rejected as a sham.