Mr. Lukashenko resisted pressure from Mr. Putin to fully implement a 1990s agreement to form a “union state” that he feared would reduce Belarus to a province of Russia. Before a presidential ...

Here’s what to know about Belarus, its election and its relationship with Russia: Belarus was part of the Soviet Union until its ... Lukashenko, a former state farm director, was first elected ...

Belarus was part of the Soviet Union until its collapse ... language in favour of Russian, and pushed for abandoning the country’s red-and-white national flag in favour of one similar to what ...

Within a year of assuming office, Lukashenko held a referendum that changed Belarus’s white-and-red flag to one ... reintegration with Russia and in 1997 signed a Union State agreement with ...

Volodymyr Zelensky has called for the creation of an “army of Europe”, suggesting the continent could not rely on Donald ...

The Russian State Duma ratified the treaty on security guarantees within the Union State between Russia and Belarus at the ...

The Russian nuclear umbrella covers both Belarus and Russia, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko said at a ...

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 ...

Secretary of State ... Belarus during former President Joe Biden's administration. Meanwhile, Belarus is holding its national election on Sunday. President Alexander Lukashenko, a loyalist of ...

ZURICH (AP) — Russia and Belarus are to remain frozen out of International ... Russia, in previous guises as the Soviet Union or Unified Team, has won the Olympic gold nine times.