Voting started following a period of almost non-existent election fever. In the capital Minsk, there’s an almost total ...

The 70-year-old has led the eastern European country for almost all of its post-Soviet history. Read more at straitstimes.com.

With many of his political opponents either jailed or exiled abroad, Alexander Lukashenko, dubbed “Europe’s last dictator,” ...

After breaking away from a crumbling Soviet Union in the early 1990s, Belarus became increasingly aligned with Russia, unlike ...

European organizations are directly interfering in the internal affairs of Belarus during the current presidential election, ...

A total of 486 international observers have been accredited to monitor Belarus' presidential election, Chairman of the Central Election Commission (CEC) Igor Karpenko said, BelTA has learned.

In 1942 the boy was found by a battalion of Latvian soldiers who were enforcing Nazi rule in Belarus. They took him to their headquarters, but he was not killed. Instead, the soldiers decided he would ...

Svetlana Tikhanovskaya refuses to call what's happening this weekend in Belarus an election. "It's a sham," the exiled opposition leader says. "This is a military-style operation; a performance ...