Belarus has “unilaterally” freed an American woman from detention, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Sunday, as the Kremlin-allied country held an orchestrated election poised to ...

“You can congratulate the Republic of Belarus, we have elected a president,” Igor Karpenko, the head of the country’s Central Election Commission, told a news conference in the early hours ...

Many voters intend to shun presidential elections in Belarus, according to research carried out by Chatham House. The number of people who say they plan to cast their vote at the polls has dropped ...

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 ...

BRUSSELS, Jan 28 (Reuters) - The European Commission proposed on Tuesday imposing tariffs on more agricultural products and certain nitrogen-based fertilisers from Russia and its ally Belarus to ...

Estimated number of Belarusians to have left the country since 2020. But the prospects for Belarus’s democratic movement in this ‘managed succession’ scenario are also uncertain. Despite state ...

The EU's foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, said the election had been a blatant affront to democracy, while German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock posted on X that "the people of Belarus had ...

(Photo by Natalia KOLESNIKOVA / AFP) Near a border checkpoint between Belarus and Ukraine, anti-tank spikes and concrete pyramids block what was once a bustling road between two peaceful neighbours.

"The world has become well-accustomed to Lukashenko’s cynical pretence of democracy in Belarus, while in reality he brutally represses civil society and opposition voices to strengthen his grip ...

The EU and the US both said they did not acknowledge him as legitimate leader of Belarus. In 2020, Mr Lukashenko used his security forces to crush mass protests following the last election ...

Vladimir Putin is reportedly preparing to deploy Oreshnik hypersonic missiles to Belarus, according to the country's leader Alexander Lukashenko. The so-called "wonder weapon", which can reach ...