Within a year of assuming office, Lukashenko held a referendum that changed Belarus’s white-and-red flag to one closely resembling the old Soviet design. He told World War II veterans ...

The 70-year-old took office two years after the demise of the Soviet Union, which earned him the nickname "Europe's Last Dictator". Belarus was ... and-white national flag in favour of one similar ...

(AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov, File) A woman covers herself with an old Belarusian national flag while shouting at police during a protest near the residence of President Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk, ...

Behind every fighter stands a reason for what they do, whether that reason is for personal glory or for the glory of a nation ...

With many of his political opponents either jailed or exiled abroad, the 70-year-old Lukashenko is back ... the country's red-and-white national flag in favor of one similar to what it used as a ...

Mr Lukashenko – a 70-year-old former collective farm boss ... state-planned and Mr Lukashenko scrapped Belarus’ white-red-white flag in the 1990s – which has since become the symbol ...

70-year-old Lukashenko, frequently dubbed 'Europe's last dictator', has ruled Belarus with an iron fist ... to abandon its red-and-white national flag, in favour of one similar to that which ...

The US citizen released on February 12 in Belarus is 56-year-old Nikolai Shugayev, who also has Ukrainian citizenship, the Dozhd TV channel reported. It is noted that Shugayev lived in Belarus with ...

Described in the West as “Europe’s last dictator”, the 70-year-old has led the eastern European ... country’s Supreme Soviet in 1990. He won Belarus’ first democratic presidential ...

Lukashenko -- a 70-year-old former collective farm boss ... is largely state-planned and Lukashenko scrapped Belarus's white-red-white flag in the 1990s -- which has since become the symbol ...