When Lukashenko was declared the winner with 81 percent, Belarusians took to the streets en masse. The brutal suppression of protests and severe political repression, unprecedented even for ...

One of the five candidates allowed to challenge him, the Communist Party’s Sergei Syrankov ... and Belarusian activist groups, Lukashenko has released 250 political prisoners in recent months.

Belarus and Russia concluded an interstate treaty on security guarantees within the framework of the Union State. In March ...

The presidents of Belarus and Russia, Aleksandr Lukashenko and Vladimir Putin, have signed a joint statement following their ...

Human rights group Viasna, which is labelled as an extremist organisation, says there are around 1,250 political prisoners; Lukashenko denies there are any. Ivan Kravtsov, secretary of the ...

MINSK, January 28. /TASS/. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko promised to declare an immediate political amnesty, should at least one political prisoner be found in the republic ...

MINSK, November 22. /TASS/. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said that there are no political prisoners in his country since the country’s law has no articles to prosecute people ...

Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Heorhii Tykhyi has called self-proclaimed Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko a "cockroach" after he referred to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a ...

Self-proclaimed Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko has admitted in Moscow that the Russian Oreshnik missile system is still not in Belarus, despite January claims that it would arrive "very ...

The US is reportedly negotiating a deal to ease sanctions on Belarusian banks and potash in exchange for the release of political prisoners… Beyond discouraging defectors, Lukashenko also seeks to ...