Alexander Lukashenko

MOSCOW—At least 100,000 Belarusian protesters took to the streets of Minsk on Sept. 13 in one of the biggest demonstrations yet against President Alexander Lukashenko since he claimed a landslide ...

KYIV, Ukraine—Belarusian authorities detained scores of demonstrators on Friday while seeking to end more than a month of ...

Tens of thousands of people marched through Minsk on Sunday calling on Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko to step ...

MOSCOW—Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko promoted hardline loyalists to top posts in his security apparatus on Thursday in an ...

KYIV, Ukraine—Dozens of journalists gathered on Sep. 2 outside a police station in the capital of Belarus to ...

Commentary The post-election turmoil shaking Belarus has the typical storyline of a geriatric dictatorship losing its ability to ...

KYIV, Ukraine—Authorities in Belarus detained scores of protesters on Tuesday as university students took to the streets of ...

VILNIUS—Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia imposed travel bans on President Alexander Lukashenko and 29 other Belarusian officials on Aug. ...

VILNIUS —Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia imposed travel bans on President Alexander Lukashenko and 29 other Belarusian officials on ...

U.S. Deputy State Secretary Stephen Biegun called for Belarusian authorities to give its people the right to “choose ...

Belarusians chanting "Happy Birthday, you rat" and flying red-and-white opposition flags gathered near President Alexander Lukashenko's residence on ...

BERLIN—The European Union has agreed to impose sanctions on up to 20 senior Belarus officials suspected of election ...

MOSCOW/MINSK—Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday the Kremlin had set up a "reserve police force" to support ...

MINSK, Belarus—Police in Belarus on Monday detained several leading opposition activists who have helped spearhead a wave of ...

VILNIUS—The people of Belarus will not allow President Alexander Lukashenko to treat them as before and he will ...

MINSK/BRUSSELS—Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko ordered his police on Aug. 19 to put down protests in the capital Minsk, ...

MINSK, Belarus—The Belarusian ambassador to Slovakia, who supported protesters rallying against his country's authoritarian president, said on Tuesday ...

Belarusian opposition politician Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya said on Aug.17 she was ready to lead Belarus and called for the ...

British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Monday said the UK does not accept the results of the Belarusian ...

MINSK—Facing growing protests that have posed the biggest challenge to his 26 years in power, President Alexander Lukashenko ...

Protesters flooded onto the streets of Minsk, the capital city of Belarus, on Aug. 16 in the largest ...

The European Union has said it considers the Belarusian presidential election results "falsified," and has refused to accept the ...

MINSK, Belarus—They emerged dazed, shaken, and in tears from the detention center in Minsk, to be met by ...

MINSK—Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanouskaya said on Tuesday she had fled abroad for the sake of her children, ...

MINSK—The opposition in Belarus rejected official election results handing President Alexander Lukashenko a landslide re-election victory on Monday, ...

MINSK—Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, once dubbed the last dictator in Europe by Washington, has seen protests come and ...

The United States dispatched the first shipment of U.S. crude oil to Belarus last week, according to the State ...