Five years since the harsh crackdown on protestors after the 2020 election, critics are readying themselves for Belarus' ...

Five candidates' names will appear on the ballot for a presidential election in Belarus on Sunday, but for the past 31 years ...

Belarus will hold a presidential election that will almost certainly give authoritarian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka a ...

Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has pardoned another 15 prisoners shortly before the country's presidential election ...

After five years of inflicting an unprecedented crackdown on the press, Alexander Lukashenko is set to run for a seventh ...

Belarusians go to the polls this weekend to vote in a presidential election that is almost certain to see incumbent President ...

Belarus under Lukashenko has become embroiled in the battle between NATO-backed Western Europe and Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Meanwhile, Belarus’ record on human rights – and its complicity in Russia’s ...

In the 2020 presidential election, Lukashenko claimed an 80% victory, leading to accusations of fraud, widespread protests, and a brutal crackdown that saw thousands arrested ...

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Reporters without Borders has accused Belarusian leader Lukashenko of having "systematically persecuted" journalists. It's ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. FILE – Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski, head of the Viasna human rights group, sits in a ...