Some analysts have suggested he is grooming his son Nikolai, who has accompanied his father to many official ceremonies, as a successor. Lukashenko has repeatedly said he will leave power "when ...

Lukashenko repeatedly declared that he wasn’t clinging to power and would “quietly and calmly hand it over to the new ...

MINSK, 4 February (BelTA) – In the latest episode of the V Teme [On Point] project on BelTA's YouTube channel, former Prime Minister of Ukraine (2010-2014) Nikolai Azarov said that NATO should ...

Belarus autocrat Alexander Lukashenko, in power since 1994, won a seventh consecutive term in office Sunday in an election denounced by the European Union and the exiled opposition. With his ...

Belarusian Central Election Commission on Monday officially declared Alexander Lukashenko's victory in the latest presidential elections with 86.82 percent of the votes. For other candidates ...

Kim's congratulatory message to Lukashenko came more than two weeks after his sister, Kim Yo-jong, publicly dismissed his Jan. 17 remarks — published by the Belarusian presidential office ...

For other candidates, Sergei Syrankov received 3.21 percent, followed by Oleg Gaidukevich (2.02 percent), Anna Kanopatskaya (1.86 percent) and Alexander Khizhnyak (1.74 percent). Around 3.60 ...

Belarusian President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, Europe’s brutal last dictator, has been named 2021’s Person of the Year by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) in recognition of ...