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.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has submitted a security guarantee agreement with Belarus to the State Duma for ratification ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russia would deploy troops on the territory of Belarus, and then begin to ...

Belarusians are voting in a closely-managed presidential election that is all but certain to extend the one-man rule of ...

Since February 2024, the Belarusian government has reduced export duties on oil, bitumen, fuel oil and several other petroleum products to zero. However, from September 1, export duties were ...

President Alexander Lukashenko, often dubbed "Europe's last dictator," offered to free Anastassia Nuhfer whose arrest was ...

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko is all but certain to extend his more than three decades in power in ...

Exit polls in Belarus late Sunday showed autocrat Alexander Lukashenko taking 87.6 percent of the vote in a presidential race ...

The result in the presidential elections was all too predictable. But has a power transition already begun? And can the West ...

MINSK (Reuters) -Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said on Sunday that some of his political opponents had "chosen" to ...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko signed a decree approving the state investment program for 2025, the press service of the head of state said on Wednesday.

The new building of the National History Museum in Minsk will be visually designed in the shape of Belarus’ map – as noted by Director ...