Congress had budgeted at least $690 million on pro-democracy programs this year to counter nations considered the world's ...

Six Belarusian officials and three companies have been hit with British sanctions in response to a “cynical pretence of democracy” in the country’s elections. The UK and Canada have joined ...

Belarus' opposition activists and Western officials on Monday denounced an orchestrated election that extends the more than three-decade rule of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko. The ...

Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko speaks at a press conference after casting his vote in the Belarusian presidential election. -/Belarusian Presidency/dpa ...

Russian, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko casts himself as a plain-spoken strongman and "president of the ordinary people".

Unpredictable, authoritarian and staunchly pro-Russian, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko ... a referendum on making Russian an official language, changing the flag to resemble its Soviet ...

The Trump administration plans to rejoin an international anti-abortion pact alongside countries such as Uganda, Saudi Arabia and Belarus ... zones over claims that language in the resolution ...

An open admirer of the Soviet Union, he has restored Soviet-style controls on the economy, discouraged use of the Belarusian language in favor of Russian, and pushed for abandoning the country’s ...

With many of his political opponents either jailed or exiled abroad, Alexander Lukashenko, dubbed “Europe’s last dictator,” is all but certain to add a seventh term.

The last time Belarus staged a presidential election in 2020, authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko was declared the winner with 80% of the vote. That triggered cries of fraud, months of protests ...