(AP Photo, File) FILE - Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko looks on during Independence ... the country’s red-and-white national flag in favor of one similar to what it used as a Soviet ...

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

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.

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 ...

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

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

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko delivers a speech ... Lukashenko held a referendum that changed Belarus’s white-and-red flag to one closely resembling the old Soviet design.

Russian, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko casts himself as a plain-spoken strongman and "president of the ordinary ...

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 ...

Unpredictable, authoritarian and staunchly pro-Russian, Belarusian leader Alexander ... the flag to resemble its Soviet-era design and giving him the right to dissolve parliament. Lukashenko ...