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

Belarus has opened early voting for a presidential election set to cement Alexander Lukashenko’s grip on power and his dependence on Moscow, three years after the country served as a launch pad for ...

As Belarus votes amid repression, what drives Alexander Lukashenko, the president likely to secure a seventh term.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is projected to take victory in the virtually uncontested election by a greater margin than he did in 2020.

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

What a “moment of opportunity” might look like, according to Tsikhanouskaya: 1 — Ukraine’s victory: “Without the support of Putin, Lukashenko wouldn’t ... have imagined Wagner Group leader Yevgeny ...

In 2023, Lukashenko brokered a deal with then mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin to end his brief uprising against Russia's military leadership, saving Putin some embarrassment. That same year ...

When Alexander Lukashenko emerged victorious from Belarus's presidential election in 2020, protesters came out on the streets ...