One of these is Belarus’s white-red-white flag. It’s considered a legitimate symbol of Belarusian statehood in opposition to the red-and-green flag, which has origins dating back to the Belarusian ...

Born in 1954 in the then Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic, Mr Lukashenko held management positions at various state-run collective farms before being elected to the country’s Supreme Soviet in ...

With many of his political opponents either jailed or exiled abroad, Alexander Lukashenko, dubbed “Europe’s last dictator,” is all but certain to add a seventh term.