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.

As Russia and Belarus continued to send migrants across the border into the European Union, bordering states — Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia — announced the Baltic Defense Line in January.

Latvia borders Russia to its east and Russia ally Belarus to its southeast. Tensions are high across Central Europe due to Russia's war against Ukraine. Sweden's armed forces said the mission of ...

December 28, 2024: Belarus, which borders Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania and Latvia, was formerly part of the Soviet Union. When the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, Belarus was one the few fifteen ...