Alexander Lukashenko, Europe’s longest-serving leader, has extended his 31-year rule in Belarus after being declared the winner of a presidential election that his exiled opponents and Western ...

Officials said turnout was 85.7% in the election, in which 6.9 million people were eligible to vote. Exiled opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya told Reuters this week that Lukashenko was ...

Belarusian leader and Russian ally Alexander Lukashenko extended his 31-year rule on Monday after electoral officials declared him the winner of a presidential election that Western governments ...

Belarusians voted on Sunday in an election set to hand President Alexander Lukashenko a seventh term, prolonging his three-decade authoritarian rule. Lukashenko — a 70-year-old former collective ...

According to the Belarusian Central Election Commission, Lukashenko won nearly 87% of the vote. The other candidates on the ballot were seen as token opponents, with all reportedly praising ...

Lukashenko, then 39, won Belarus’s first, and so far only, presidential election deemed free and fair by outside observers in 1994. The independent candidate ran on a populist platform ...

Belarus held an orchestrated election over the weekend that the opposition and the EU rejected as a farce, extending authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko's more than three decades in power.

Even Lukashenko doesn't seem to think the presidential election is that important. In one pro-government video on TikTok -- where the regime is cautiously attempting to engage young people ...

Lukashenko won over 86 percent of the vote in the January 26 presidential election that was widely condemned as a sham by Western countries. "They took place in conditions of a deep human rights ...