Belarusian leader and Russian ally Alexander Lukashenko extended his 31-year rule on Monday after electoral officials ...

The day before, Belarus released American citizen Anastassia Nuhfer, who had been arrested in December 2024, U.S. Secretary ...

Belarusian leader and Russian ally Alexander Lukashenko extended his 31-year rule on Monday after electoral officials ...

A close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Lukashenko seems unbothered by his characterisation as a ruthless autocrat, telling lawmakers in an annual address in 2022: "I am a dictator ...

Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...

Lukashenko’s regime is propped by Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose war in Ukraine has brought the two leaders even closer. Last week, Putin called Lukashenko and wished him “success ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko on winning a sham presidential election this weekend. “Dear Aleksandr Grigorievich, I sincerely congratulate you on ...

“As long as Belarus is under Lukashenko and (Russian President Vladimir) Putin’s control ... had “just unilaterally released an innocent American”, whom he named as Anastassia Nuhfer.

Unpredictable, authoritarian and staunchly pro-Russian, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko casts himself as a plain-spoken strongman and "president of the ordinary people". Described in the ...