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 ...

Belarusians voted on Sunday in an election set to hand President Alexander Lukashenko a seventh ... "Europe's last dictator" ...

2023 [Sputnik/Alexander Demyanchuk/Pool via Reuters] Early in his presidency, Lukashenko’s foreign policy echoed the old Soviet Union’s position during the Cold War. He railed against Western ...

Alexander Lukashenko, Europe’s longest-serving leader, has extended his 31-year rule in Belarus after being declared 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 ...

Belarusian strongman President Alexander Lukashenko is poised to extend his rule into a fourth decade in a tightly-controlled ...

Reclusive Moscow-allied Belarus will hold a presidential election Sunday, with President Alexander Lukashenko set to cruise ...

That includes NPR Charles Maynes, who covers the former Soviet Union and joins us on the ... we'll almost certainly see Alexander Lukashenko, a one-time collective farm manager, elected to a ...

As an East African bloc urged an immediate ceasefire in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwandan-backed M23 rebels who ...

Belarusian leader and Russian ally Alexander Lukashenko extended his 31-year rule on Monday after electoral officials ...

The last time Belarus staged a presidential election in 2020, authoritarian leader Alexander ... people in post-Soviet Belarus have ever known. Belarus was part of the Soviet Union until its ...