The protests presented Lukashenko with a dilemma ... Belarusian territory to launch the invasion of Ukraine. During the 2023 revolt by the Russian mercenary Wagner Group, Lukashenko acted as ...

Today, all the key opposition figures from that period are in prison or have fled abroad, like Tikhanovskaya. Former ...

Alexander Lukashenko will soon begin his seventh term as president of Belarus. The official result of the 26 January election gave him 86.8 per cent of the vote, following an election held in a ...

Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko declared himself the winner in the country's so-called presidential elections, in which zero members of the country's opposition were allowed to take part.

Kremlin satellite - Since 1994, Lukashenko has crushed several ... to communicate with her since March 2023, has called on Belarusians not to protest during the vote and to wait for the right ...

He faces only token opposition. “The trauma of the 2020 protests was so deep that Lukashenko this time decided not to take risks and opted for the most reliable option when balloting looks more ...

For the first time since Alexander Lukashenko came to ... author of a book on the 2020 protest movement, La Révolution Suspendue ("The Suspended Revolution," 2023). "They're a bit lost, trying ...

The protests were ultimately crushed by riot police with mass arrests and brute force. The European Union then refused to recognise ... of her detention in 2023. She was held for ten days with ...