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.

"Yesterday, obviously, there was a bit of a bloody war," a security officer in the Belarusian city of Brest said in a leaked phone conversation with another official shortly after the country's ...

Long before Russia invaded Ukraine, Russia developed a plan in 2020 to enter and occupy Belarus because it faced mass protests against President Alexander Lukashenko, according to the Ukrainian ...

Dec 17 (Reuters) - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said in an interview that relations with the United States could improve and that a starting point could be U.S. acknowledgment that a ...

Belarusian culturologist Aksana Zaretskaya and businessman Bahdan Karavets were sentenced in Minsk on March 14 to 1 1/2 and two years in prison, respectively, on charges of "taking part in activities ...

On the potential overthrow of Lukashenko's regime in Belarus, the relationship between the Belarusian dictator and Putin, ...

MINSK, 18 August (BelTA) – Belarus will present over 200 defense products during the 6th international defense technology forum Army 2020, BelTA learned from Vladimir Lavrenyuk, spokesman of the State ...

But when we crossed the border into Lithuania, I knew that I would be free. That day, I was one of 123 prisoners released in ...

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, an opposition leader in Belarus, hadn’t heard from her husband Siarhei in more than two years. Not since Belarusian authorities placed him in “incommunicado” detention, in ...

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Imprisoned Belarusian opposition activist Maria Kolesnikova has resurfaced after more than 20 months without any communication with relatives or friends and met with her father ...