What you need to know about the very predictable Belarus elections
The E.U. has called the election a sham, and President Alexander Lukashenko has said he’s “too busy” to even campaign.
Putin ally Lukashenko declared winner of Belarus vote that West calls a charade
Belarusian leader and Russian ally Alexander Lukashenko extended his 31-year rule on Monday after electoral officials ...
Belarus strongman and Putin’s closest ally set to win a 7th term in an election the opposition calls a farce
The country held an orchestrated election virtually guaranteed to give the 70-year-old autocrat yet another term on top of ...
Lukashenko heads for massive win in Belarus election scorned by the West
As an East African bloc urged an immediate ceasefire in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwandan-backed M23 rebels who ...
Belarus election is poised to extend the 30-year rule of 'Europe's last dictator'
Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power for over 30 years, is poised to extend his rule ...
Polls Open In Belarus With Lukashenko Set To Extend 30-year Rule
Belarusians began voting on Sunday, with President Alexander Lukashenko expected to cruise to victory unchallenged for a seventh term, prolonging his three-decade authoritarian rule.
Belarus’s Strong-Arm Leader, Aleksandr Lukashenko, Cruises to Re-election
Europe’s longest-serving leader won re-election in a contest widely believe to have been rigged. The result cements the power ...
Polls open in Belarus presidential election with chance of change at the top slim
Voting started following a period of almost non-existent election fever. In the capital Minsk, there’s an almost total ...
The Victoria Advocate5d
Lukashenko set to extend 30-year rule in Belarus
Reclusive Moscow-allied Belarus will hold a presidential election Sunday, with President Alexander Lukashenko set to cruise ...
Times Union5d
Belarus strongman set to win a 7th term in an election the opposition calls a farce
The smiling face of President Alexander Lukashenko gazed out from campaign posters across Belarus on Sunday as ... two years after the demise of the Soviet Union — earned him the nickname ...
Euronews6d
'Europe's last dictator': Belarus election set to extend Lukashenko's 30-year rule
Belarus was part of the Soviet Union until its collapse in 1991. The Slavic nation of 9 million people is sandwiched between Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland — with the latter three ...