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

(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, Europe’s longest-serving leader, has extended his 31-year rule in Belarus after being declared the winner of a presidential election that his exiled opponents and Western ...

Belarus votes in orchestrated election all but certain to extend the rule of authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko ...

Belarus held an orchestrated election over the weekend that the opposition and the EU rejected as a farce, extending authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko's more than three decades in power.

Belarusian leader and Russian ally Alexander ... and Lukashenko take part in a signing ceremony following a meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State of Russia and Belarus in Minsk ...

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 ...

FILE - A woman covers herself with an old Belarusian national flag while shouting at police during a protest near the residence of President Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk, Belarus, Sept. 6, 2020 ...

Belarus votes in orchestrated election all but certain to extend the rule of authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko TALLINN, Estonia -- Belarus votes in orchestrated election all but certain to ...

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 ...