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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 Belarus ...

Belarusians go to the polls this weekend to vote in a presidential election that is almost certain to see incumbent President Alexander Lukashenko returned to office for a seventh term. The country ...

Belarus will head to the polls to vote in the presidential elections. Concerns are growing, however, over a potential information shutdown during these crucial days.Ruling since 1994, current ...

Western countries placed a bet on fugitives who are rapidly losing their remaining favour even among people in the West, and Poles and Lithuanians behave like a gambler who has lost everything but is ...

MINSK -- "What's wrong with that cow?" Belarus's hard-line leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka asks a deeply-uncomfortable-looking official. "[It's] barely alive." The clip -- both humorous and chilling ...

Rights groups, activists and independent media in Russia and Belarus endured increased government scrutiny, repressive laws ...

Bashkortostan and Belarus are increasing co-operation in many areas – as stated by the Head of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Radiy Khabirov, at a meeting with President Aleksandr Lukashenko today The ...

Belarus also kept an eye on BRICS for a long time, but was in no hurry to jump in. Back in 2015, at the summit in Ufa, Aleksandr Lukashenko said that Belarus welcomed the open nature of BRICS and ...

MINSK, 3 February (BelTA) – Becoming a full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization is Belarus’ great achievement in international relations, Belarus’ Deputy Minister of Foreign ...

Belarusians are voting in a closely-managed presidential election that is all but certain to extend the one-man rule of Alexander Lukashenko, in power since 1994 and Europe’s longest-serving leader.