Belarus votes in orchestrated election all but certain to extend the rule of authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko

Estonia has admitted that the Russian Federation may arrange provocations during the disconnection of the Estonian power system from the Russian one. Source: Estonian Interior Minister Lauri Läänemets,

At 8 AM in Belarus, the main day of voting organized by the regime began, during which Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power for 31 years, seeks his seventh term in office. The opposition calls this vote a "no-choice election" due to the lack of real opponents and any prospects for a democratic process.

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Ales Bialiatski, a human rights advocate who won the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, is serving a 10-year prison sentence in Belarus and is one of hundreds of its political prisoners.

Europe’s longest-serving leader won re-election in a contest widely believe to have been rigged. The result cements the power of a leader whose country is considered Russia’s staunchest ally.

In late 2024, the EU authorities revealed that 90% of the migrants arriving via Belarus had Russian student or travel visas. The bloc pledged 170 million euros to its eastern members — Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Estonia, and Finland — and to Norway to ...

Belarus autocrat Alexander Lukashenko, in power since 1994, won a seventh consecutive term in office yesterday in an election denounced by the European Union and the exiled opposition.

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarus votes in orchestrated election all but certain to extend the rule of authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko.

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The yellow name tag that Ales Bialiatski wears on his prison garb sets him apart from other inmates in Penal Colony No. 9 in eastern Belarus. It marks Bialiatski as a ...

Near a border checkpoint between Belarus and Ukraine, anti-tank spikes and concrete pyramids block what was once a bustling road between two peaceful neighbours.