After years of the U.S. trying to isolate Russia’s closest ally, a meeting with Belarus’s president points to better relations, raising hopes of loosening his repression and his embrace of Moscow.

Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, Belarus’s autocratic president and Russia’s closest ally, has taken steps to soften his country’s isolation from the West. By Andrew Higgins and Tomas Dapkus Belarus ...

An American was among three people released from prison by the government of Belarus, the Trump administration announced Wednesday. Adam Boehler, the US special envoy for hostages, told reporters ...

Speaking at the Munich Security Conference on Friday, he specifically pointed at Belarus as a launchpad for a possible future attack. Zelenskyy said Kyiv "clearly understands what the Russians are ...

Belarus held an orchestrated election over the weekend that the opposition and the EU rejected as a farce, extending authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko's more than three decades in power ...

Andrei Kuznechyk and an unnamed American were released on Wednesday. Belarusian journalist Andrei Kuznechyk and an unnamed American citizen were among the three prisoners released in Belarus on ...

but Lukashenko acts as though hundreds of thousands of people are still standing outside his palace,” she said. The European Union rejected the election in Belarus on Sunday as illegitimate and ...

Belarus has "unilaterally" freed an American woman from detention, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Sunday, as the Kremlin-allied country held an orchestrated election poised to give ...

In Belarus, Vasyl and his family have recently been put on an official list of families in a "socially dangerous situation," a status that could result in him and his wife losing their parental ...

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Belarus’ opposition leader in exile, called for Russian troops’ withdrawal from Belarus as part of a potential peace settlement in Ukraine. Tsikhanouskaya said during a ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday announced the release of a U.S. citizen who had been imprisoned in Belarus as controversy ... still standing outside his palace," she said.

Europe’s longest-serving authoritarian leader, Belarus’ Alexander Lukashenko, is set to run for a seventh term on Jan. 26, 2025. And even before the first vote is counted, it can be stated ...