Officials say that Russia and Belarus will hold a joint military exercise in September, part of efforts by the two neighbors ...

We must be strong and vigilant and strengthen the country's defense capability, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko ...

Belarus and Iran have developed a growing strategic partnership since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in ...

With many of his political opponents either jailed or exiled abroad, Alexander Lukashenko, dubbed “Europe’s last dictator,” ...

Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, Belarus’s autocratic president and Russia’s closest ally, has taken steps to soften his country’s ...

Blinken. Mr. Blinken’s deleted statement denounced the Belarus election as a farce, saying, “The United States joins many of our European allies in assessing that elections cannot be credible ...

In addition to leveraging the migrant issue, Lukashenko has deepened military cooperation with non-Western allies beyond Russia, including China. In July 2024, Belarus hosted Chinese military ...

Nearly 3 1/2 decades after leaving the Soviet Union, the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania this weekend will flip a switch to end electricity-grid connections to neighboring Russia and ...

Volodymyr Zelensky said earlier this month that a Russian military build-up in Belarus could set the stage for a potential ...