ZURICH — Russia and Belarus are to remain frozen out of International Ice Hockey Federation competitions through the 2025-26 season. The IIHF decision on Tuesday covers all world championships ...

The European Union proposed imposing tariffs on the remaining agricultural products coming from Russia and Belarus that aren’t already facing duties, as well as some nitrogen-based fertilizers.

Belarusian air defense shot down a Russian Shahed drone that entered the country's airspace in the overnight attack on Ukraine, Belarusian Hajun monitoring group wrote on Jan. 28. Observers reported ...

Belarusian President and presidential candidate Alexander Lukashenko attends a press conference after casting his vote in the presidential election in Minsk, Belarus, January 26, 2025. File ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The head of the Central Commission of the Republic of Belarus Igor Karpenko, fifth from left, and his ...

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 ...

The 70-year-old Lukashenko has given little indication that he intends to step down, even after his seventh term, Nigel Gould-Davies, the former UK ambassador to Belarus, told CNN.

Minsk and Moscow have deepened ties in recent years, with Belarus firmly supporting the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and storing Russian nuclear warheads on its soil. Chinese President Xi ...

Belarusian leader and Russian ally Alexander Lukashenko extended his 31-year rule on Monday after electoral officials declared him the winner of a presidential election that Western governments ...

Belarusian President and presidential candidate Alexander Lukashenko visits a polling station during the presidential election in Minsk, Belarus Jan 26, 2025. [Photo/Agencies] MINSK - Incumbent ...

The EU and the US both said they did not acknowledge him as legitimate leader of Belarus. In 2020, Mr Lukashenko used his security forces to crush mass protests following the last election ...

The smiling face of President Alexander Lukashenko gazed out from campaign posters across Belarus on Sunday as the ... led a voting precinct in Minsk in 2020 and vowed to prevent a “repeat ...