Born in 1954 in the town of Kopys in northern Belarus, Lukashenko, a self-confessed troublemaker at school, was a Soviet pig farm manager before becoming president. The leader, who at times has ...

Alexander Lukashenko, Europe’s longest-serving leader, has extended his 31-year rule in Belarus after being declared the ...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko won a seventh consecutive term in office Sunday in an election denounced by the ...

Belarusians value 'peace' - Most people in the landlocked country have only distant memories of life before Lukashenko, who ...

As an East African bloc urged an immediate ceasefire in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwandan-backed M23 rebels who ...

Belarusian leader and Russian ally Alexander Lukashenko extended his 31-year rule on Monday after electoral officials ...

Lukashenko, who faced no serious challenge ... free nor fair because independent media are banned in the former Soviet republic and all leading opposition figures have either been jailed or ...

I'm staring into the eyes of Vladimir Lenin, the Russian revolutionary who founded the Soviet Union ... Presidential incumbent Alexander Lukashenko appears to have achieved hero status too.

The result grants Lukashenko a seventh term in power and cements his grip on the former Soviet republic, a major Russian ally that has played a key role in Moscow’s war against Ukraine ...