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 ...

Unpredictable, authoritarian and staunchly pro-Russian, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko ... in 1954 in the then-Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic, Lukashenko held management positions ...

Belarus autocrat Alexander Lukashenko, in power since 1994 ... election after Belarus gained independence from the Soviet Union. Criticism of the strongman is banned. Most people AFP spoke ...

MOSCOW, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said that ignoring the Soviet Union's role in liberating Nazi German death camps such as Auschwitz and not inviting surviving family ...

Belarusian President and presidential candidate Alexander Lukashenko casts his ballot during Belarus ... No real surprises that most of the former Soviet republics that have remained in Moscow’s orbit ...

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

"The Belarusian government has resigned. [Prime Minister] Roman Golovchenko has signed the respective resolution," the press service said. The government tendered its resignation to the ...

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Indeed there is reason to suspect that the real purpose in using them was less to force a Japanese defeat than to warn the Soviet Union to be amenable to American wishes in the construction of the ...

Prosecutors released footage this week of alleged victims detailing their claims of sexual assault by the Alexander brothers, accused of drugging and then sexually assaulting and raping dozens of ...

MINSK, February 2. /TASS/. Head of the Belarusian president’s administration Dmitry Krutoy has reiterated that President Alexander Lukashenko will pay his first visit after his re-election to ...