The choice of Minsk for the Normandy Four talks ten years ago was due to the historical role of Belarusian President ...

MINSK (Reuters) -Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko was on track to extend his 31-year rule with 87.6% of the vote in a presidential election on Sunday, according to an exit poll broadcast on ...

MINSK, 12 February (BelTA) - Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko signed decrees to award special, military and class ...

January 2025 in Belarus is not one of them. Drive around Minsk and you'll see no big billboards promoting the portraits of candidates. There is little campaigning. The grey skies and sleet of a ...

“All our opponents and enemies should understand: do not hope, we will never repeat what we had in 2020,” Lukashenko told a stadium in Minsk during a ceremony on Friday. Speaking to reporters ...

Since then, Minsk’s dependence on Moscow has only deepened. Although Lukashenko is “more dependent on Russia and on Putin personally than ever before,” there may be limits to this alliance ...

MINSK, Belarus — Exit polls in Belarus late Sunday showed autocrat Alexander Lukashenko taking 87.6 percent of the vote in a presidential race denounced by the European Union as a “sham” and ...

Even Mr Lukashenko himself claims to lack interest in the process. "I'm not following the election campaign. I've got no time," the Belarusian leader told workers at the Minsk Automobile Plant ...

Lukashenko has been in power since 1994 Veteran ... countries and the United States to return their ambassadors to Minsk for the first time in years. Human rights group Viasna, which is banned ...

"He has kept order in the country," Labanov told AFP in central Minsk. Sunday's presidential vote is the first in Belarus since 2020, when tens of thousands protested against Lukashenko ...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko delivers a speech during a meeting with high-ranking military officers in Minsk, Belarus, in June 2023 [Press Service of the President of the Republic of ...

Since then, Minsk’s dependence on Moscow has only deepened. Putin and Lukashenko shake hands during a meeting in Minsk, on May 24, 2024. - Contributor/Getty Images Although Lukashenko is “more ...