Belarus is undergoing perhaps its most serious political crisis since independence. This eastern European country of nearly 10 million has been ruled by President Alyaksandr Lukashenka since 1994. The ...

Strong reporting last week by AP’s Belarus reporter Yuras Karmanau shed light on a little-told element of the historic East-West prisoner exchange — the plight of the Belarusian political prisoners.

From unrest in Belarus and Kyrgyzstan to the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict, WSJ explores how the crises unfolding in Russia’s backyard mark a turning point in Vladimir Putin’s rule and put him ...

TALLINN, Estonia — Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko was sworn in Tuesday to a seventh term, and he mocked those who derided him as “Europe’s last dictator” by saying ...

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya told Euronews that although the protest movement in Belarus has gone mostly ... over 50,000 people have been detained on political grounds after mass protests broke ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday he is sure the problems that have emerged in Belarus after the presidential ... have castigated the ongoing turmoil and demanded that these ...

MINSK, 27 March (BelTA) – China and Belarus, being all-weather and all-round strategic partners, provide each other with mutual political support and demonstrate a high level of coordination in ...

Lukashenko marked three decades in power last year, and his political opponents have denounced the tightly orchestrated Jan. 26 election as a farce. The Belarus Central Election Commission ...