The acclamation of Alexander Lukashenko as Belarus president for a seventh straight term was confirmed on January 26. The ...

Rights groups, activists and independent media in Russia and Belarus endured increased government scrutiny, repressive laws and even were shut down and forced to operate from exile abroad.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un sent a rare public message congratulating Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on ...

That same year Putin placed tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, with Lukashenko's approval. The Belarusian leader has promised to use them "without hesitation" if Minsk is attacked. At home ...

Tikhanovskaya's allies in Belarus are held in harsh prisons -- often incommunicado and in isolation. Lukashenko accused imprisoned protest leader Maria Kolesnikova -- who tore up her passport ...

A few decades back, a decreasing number of countries were given taints of autocracies and dictatorship (even though many were under undemocratic monarchies).

President of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko has congratulated President of Sri Lanka Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Independence Day, sb.by ...

Belarus is committed to co-operating with Africa, President of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he met with a delegation of the ...

The Russian leader Vladimir Putin submitted a treaty on security guarantees to the State Duma, which was signed in December 2024 by Russia and Belarus. It provides for the possibility of using nuclear ...

The elections of the President of the republic held in Belarus on January 26 were the calmest in the entire history of their holding.