Alexander Lukashenko is expected to extend his 31-year rule with 87.6% of the vote, according to an exit poll broadcast on ...

Rights groups, activists and independent media in Russia and Belarus endured increased government scrutiny, repressive laws and even were shut down and forced to operate from exile abroad.

(AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov) A woman covers herself with an old Belarusian national flag while shouting at police during a ...

In this photo released by Belarus' Presidential Press Service, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, right ... and pushed for abandoning the country’s red-and-white national flag in favor of one ...

Unpredictable, authoritarian and staunchly pro-Russian, Belarusian leader Alexander ... Republic, Lukashenko held management ...

Belarusians began voting on Sunday, with President Alexander Lukashenko expected to cruise to victory unchallenged for a ...

Reclusive Moscow-allied Belarus will hold a presidential election Sunday, with President Alexander Lukashenko set to cruise ...

Belarusians began voting today, with President Alexander Lukashenko ... is largely state-planned and Lukashenko scrapped Belarus’s white-red-white flag in the 1990s – which has since become ...

Alexander Lukashenko is expected to extend his 31-year rule of Belarus with 87.6% of the vote ... the country’s red-and-white national flag in favour of one similar to what it used as a Soviet ...