U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Christopher W. Smith visited Belarus alongside two other U.S. officials in a secret ...

Belarusian authorities have released an imprisoned U.S. citizen, a Belarusian journalist for a U.S.-funded media outlet and ...

Exit polls in Belarus late Sunday showed autocrat Alexander Lukashenko taking 87.6 percent of the vote in a presidential race denounced by the European Union as a “sham” and the country’s ...

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.

Belarus on Sunday held an orchestrated election virtually guaranteed to give its 70-year-old autocrat, Alexander Lukashenko, yet another presidential term on top of his three decades in power.

Officially, there are five candidates, but 70-year-old Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled the country for more than three decades, will almost certainly retain his seat.

The acclamation of Alexander Lukashenko as Belarus president for a seventh straight term was confirmed on January 26. The ...

Andrey Kuznechyk, a journalist with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, was one of those released from a Belarusian prison after ...

Belarusians are voting in a presidential election on Sunday as President Alexander Lukashenko seeks a seventh ... and stay open until 8pm (17:00 GMT). Belarus operates on a simple majority system ...

Belarusian leader and Russian ally Alexander Lukashenko extended his ... “You can congratulate the Republic of Belarus, we have elected a president,” Igor Karpenko, the head of the country ...

Opposition rejects the election as a farce after years of sweeping repression. The smiling face of President Alexander Lukashenko gazed out from campaign posters across Belarus on Sunday as the ...