2023 [Sputnik/Alexander Demyanchuk/Pool via Reuters] Early in his presidency, Lukashenko’s foreign policy echoed the old Soviet Union’s position during the Cold War. He railed against Western ...

Alexander Lukashenko has, to date, been the only leader of Belarus since the dissolution of the Soviet Union Authoritarian Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has secured another victory in an ...

Belarusian leader and Russian ally Alexander Lukashenko extended his 31-year rule on Monday after electoral officials declared him the winner of a presidential election Western governments rejected as a sham.

As an East African bloc urged an immediate ceasefire in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwandan-backed M23 rebels who seized the city of Goma extended their advance on Wednesday, and Congo said it planned a campaign to recover lost territory.

Belarusians voted on Sunday in an election set to hand President Alexander Lukashenko ... nickname he embraces -- Lukashenko's Belarus has retained much of the Soviet Union's traditions and ...

Belarus autocrat Alexander Lukashenko, in power since 1994 ... election after Belarus gained independence from the Soviet Union. Criticism of the strongman is banned. Most people AFP spoke ...

The Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko has won a ... Russia since it gained independence in 1991 from the Soviet Union. In 2022, Lukashenko - who is largely regarded a stooge to his ...

Robin Bjalon in Minsk, with Vassily Koloskov in Warsaw Jan 26, 2025 Jan 26, 2025 Updated 3 mins ago Belarus autocrat Alexander ... Lukashenko's Belarus has retained much of the Soviet Union's ...

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 o

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power for over 30 years, is poised to extend his rule in an election that concludes Sunday and that the opposition dismisses as a

Swedish authorities boarded a vessel suspected of being involved in an earlier underwater sabotage of cables in the Baltic Sea on Monday.