LONDON, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Britain on Monday imposed sanctions targeting Belarusian officials and defence companies after joining Western governments in condemning what they called "sham ...

Longtime Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko won a “sham” presidential election on Sunday with 87.6 percent of vote, according to an official exit poll, marking his seventh term as leader of the ...

On January 26, Belarusians will go to the polls for “presidential elections,” an event seen by many as a “sham,” a “no-choice election” (bezvybory), and little more than a ritual for ...

“We’re asking those forced to take part in this sham election to vote against all candidates,” she wrote on Telegram. Tsikhanouskaya’s opposition movement has said the “elections” are ...

has extended his 31-year rule in Belarus after being declared the winner of a presidential election that his exiled opponents and Western countries have denounced as a sham. Unlike in 2020 ...

The government has launched its promised independent review into the loan charge but has been met with criticism from campaigners who dismissed it as a "sham". The loan charge was implemented to ...

For more recent analysis of Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS), see this August 2023 post from the Warfare, Irregular Threats, and Terrorism Program's Examining Extremism series. Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS or ...