Lukashenko with an axe at a meeting with workers of the Minsk Automobile Plant (MAZ) in Minsk, 21 January 2025. Posted: ...

Belarusians will go to the polls for “presidential elections,” an event seen by many as a “sham,” a “no-choice election” ...

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power for over 30 years, is poised to extend his rule ...

Belarus is a buffer state. That is the geography, and there is no escaping it. But Belarus is not just a buffer. Our country ...

Belarus is on the brink of extending the 30-year rule of its authoritarian leader, President Alexander Lukashenko, who is ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Viktar Babaryka, a former presidential hopeful, stands inside a defendants’ cage during his trial in Minsk ...

Other high-profile political prisoners have also been held incommunicado in Belarus, including Maria Kolesnikova, who was part of Babaryko's 2020 presidential campaign team until his arrest.

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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during a joint press conference with Poland's Prime Minister in Lviv, on December 17, 2024 YURIY DYACHYSHYN/AFP via Getty Images Zelensky said ...