Belarus held an orchestrated election over the weekend that the opposition and the EU rejected as a farce, extending authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko's more than three decades in power.

"Yesterday, obviously, there was a bit of a bloody war," a security officer in the Belarusian city of Brest said in a leaked phone conversation with another official shortly after the country's ...

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Poor turnout for an online election underscores the daunting challenges faced by the largely exiled Belarusian democratic ...

Belarus is undergoing perhaps its most serious political crisis since independence. This eastern European country of nearly 10 million has been ruled by President Alyaksandr Lukashenka since 1994. The ...

MINSK, 20 March (BelTA) – Belarus will not allow a repeat of the events of 2020, when attempts were made to overturn and destroy the country, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko told journalists ...

Three members of Belarusian rock band Nizkiz, whose song "Pravily" became known as a protest anthem during the 2020 pro-democracy demonstrations, were detained in Belarus, independent Russian media ...

MINSK, 18 August (BelTA) – Belarus will present over 200 defense products during the 6th international defense technology forum Army 2020, BelTA learned from Vladimir Lavrenyuk, spokesman of the State ...