With many of his political opponents either jailed or exiled abroad, Alexander Lukashenko, dubbed “Europe’s last dictator,” ...
Belarus is on the brink of extending the 30-year rule of its authoritarian leader, President Alexander Lukashenko, who is ...
By Andrew Higgins Europe’s longest-serving leader, President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko of Belarus, cruised to his seventh election victory in a row on Sunday in a contest that his exiled opponents ...
Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, taking two hours to address the media at a press conference on election day, spoke at ...
in power since 1994 and Europe’s longest-serving leader. The last time Belarus held a presidential election in 2020, Lukashenko claimed a landslide victory with more than 80% of the vote.
Having visited the polling stations, I can say that people make informed choices, independent observer, former member of ...
Belarus' top security agency propagates fear, retaining its Soviet-era name of the KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti). It is also the only country in Europe to uphold the death penalty ...
Belarus’ top security agency kept its fearsome Soviet-era name of the KGB, and it’s the only country in Europe to keep the death penalty, with executions carried out with a gunshot to the back ...