MINSK -- "What's wrong with that cow?" Belarus's hard-line leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka asks a deeply-uncomfortable-looking official. "[It's] barely alive." The clip -- both humorous and chilling ...

There hasn’t been a free and fair electoral process in our country for decades, so it’s not as though we don’t already know the outcome: over 80% for Lukashenka, written in by the Central Electoral ...

Political analyst and historian Alexander Friedman wrote about the dilemma that suddenly arose for Aliaksandr Lukashenka. “The fact that official Minsk does not comment on the fateful events around ...

Demonstrators in Warsaw, Riga, Prague, and Vilnius decried the likely January 26 voting victory of Belarusian strongman Alyaksandr Lukashenka. The Washington-based Freedom House advocacy group ...

On Sunday, Aliaksandr Lukashenka ‘won’ his seventh term in office in a rigged election, extending his 30-year reign by another five years. Still ‘only’ 70, this makes him one of the longest-serving ...

"The regime continues its threats. Apart from ongoing mass detentions – many still related to participating in the 2020 protests – Lukashenka announced last month that any public resistance during the ...