Rights groups, activists and independent media in Russia and Belarus endured increased government scrutiny, repressive laws and even were shut down and forced to operate from exile abroad.

The Russian leader Vladimir Putin submitted a treaty on security guarantees to the State Duma, which was signed in December 2024 by Russia and Belarus. It provides for the possibility of using nuclear ...

An investigation reveals how Belarusian elites, including Lukashenko’s inner circle, have leveraged Russian fishing quotas to ...

When President Donald Trump froze foreign assistance for 90 days, he argued that such a drastic step was needed to eliminate ...

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

Here’s a look at the life of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. Personal Birth date: August 30, 1954 (some sources say August 31) Birth place: Kopys, Belarus Full name: Alexander Grigorievich ...

Aleksandr Lukashenko has awarded himself a seventh term as president of Belarus, with the West calling the so-called vote a ...

Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko has been in power for more than 30 years and just won another election widely ...

Last week, a man at an automobile plant said that he hadn’t been following an election campaign very closely because he’d ...

Alexander Lukashenko, the autocratic leader of Belarus who claimed victory in another election derided as a sham, played a ...