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

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

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

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power for over 30 years, is poised to extend his rule ...

Hundreds of Swedish troops arrived in Latvia on Saturday to join a Canadian-led multinational brigade along NATO's eastern ...

Belarus is holding a presidential election on Sunday that will secure another five-year mandate for Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power for over three decades and crushed all opposition.

Lithuania has closed two of its six border crossings into Belarus, as Latvia also bolsters its borders with Russia’s ally. Known as the “last European dictator”, Lukashenko has been ...

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.

Where is Belarus? It has Russia - its former imperial master - to the east and Ukraine to the south. To the north and west lie EU and Nato members Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. Why does it matter?

Lithuania, Latvia, and Poland. A total of 1,039,954 European residents have visited Belarus since 15 April 2022.

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

With opponents jailed or exiled, Alexander Lukashenko has also brought polling forward, with protests considered less likely ...