Or both. Four days after his Wagner troops raced toward Moscow, then withdrew following a deal brokered in part by Belarusian strongman Alyaksandr Lukashenka, Prigozhin's whereabouts were still ...

Public protests against the regime of Alexander Lukashenka that began in mid February in response to a tax on those employed for less than half of a year have grown and morphed into a demand for ...

The oldest son of Lukashenka, Viktar, became his father's assistant for national security in 2005. From 2007 to 2021, he was a member of the Security Council of the Republic of Belarus, and in ...

“This is important evidence of Lukashenka’s crimes and complicity in the war. These testimonies, collected by CNN journalists, will help in the future investigation and bring Lukashenka to the ...

RFE/RL takes a look at some of Lukashenka’s more memorable -- and often inappropriate -- public statements over the past two decades since he came to power in July 1994. The European Zoo ...

Its creation was heralded by the Belarusian leader, Aliaksandr Lukashenka, as a stabilising force for the political system and necessary for the preservation of “Belarusian ideology” after his ...

Alyaksandr Lukashenka aims to demonstrate his strength and control over the country in this way. - We absolutely cannot speak of an election in any absolute sense. It is an empty electoral ...

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine almost two years ago caused turbulence for Belarusian ruler Aliaksandr Lukashenka, who was labelled a Putin lackey or co-belligerent. But 2023 has seen somewhat ...

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 ...

And here is where Lukashenka and the opposition’s concerns, almost incidentally, coincide: should there be any social upheaval, no matter how small, it could possibly be used by the Kremlin to ...

At the start of 2023, Belarus's leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka, (who been the president of Belarus since the office's establishment on July 20, 1994) embraced and promoted Belarus’ relations with ...