Belarusians vote on Sunday in a presidential election to extend Alexander Lukashenko's 30-year stranglehold on power in which ...

Exiled opposition calls Sunday's election a sham No sign of 70-year-old preparing to hand over power Lukashenko sends signal to EU with prisoner releases End to Russia-Ukraine war could ease his ...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko's youngest son, Nikolai, has been appearing ever more frequently in the media lately. The 20-year-old, who used to accompany his father on state visits ...

Exiled Rival Accuses Lukashenko of Playing 'Game' With Prisoners Before Belarus Election By Ilze Filks DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - Exiled opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya has accused ...

In power since 1994, Alexander Lukashenko is assured of a new five-year term in a vote that the exiled opposition describes as a sham. It has called on Belarusians to tick a box that allows them ...

Tsikhanouskaya condemns election 'ritual' as a sham Exiled politician says Lukashenko seeking concessions from West She calls prisoner releases a game, not an easing of repression Lukashenko ...

DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - Exiled opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya has accused Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of playing games with the West by drip-feeding releases of ...

Human rights group Viasna says there are some 1,250 political prisoners in Belarus. Lukashenko says there are none. In charge of the country since 1994, he denies rigging elections and says it is ...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Saturday freed 23 political prisoners, state media reported, the latest mass pardoning ahead of next week’s presidential election. The authoritarian leader ...

Belarus' leader Alexander Lukashenko has pardoned a further 20 people whom rights activists describe as political prisoners. That's according to a statement published on Saturday on the president ...

MINSK, 30 December (BelTA) - On 30 December, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko signed Decree No. 477 to approve the plan for preparing draft legislation in 2025, BelTA learned from the ...

Self-proclaimed Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko has pardoned 23 people who supposedly "committed extremist crimes". Among them are three women and 20 men; 13 people are over 50 years old, ...