The flow of electricity between the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and Russia has been officially severed.

Decades after leaving the Soviet Union the Baltics are in the final hours of relying on Russia - All remaining transmission ...

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 ...

Here’s a look at the life of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. Personal Birth date: August 30, 1954 (some sources say August 31) Birth place: Kopys, Belarus Full name: Alexander Grigorievich ...

Belarusian strongman President Alexander Lukashenko is poised to extend his rule in a tightly-controlled vote where he faces ...

Voting started following a period of almost non-existent election fever. In the capital Minsk, there’s an almost total ...

Belarusians began voting Sunday, with President Alexander Lukashenko expected to cruise to victory unchallenged for a seventh ...

Reclusive Moscow-allied Belarus will hold a presidential election Sunday, with President Alexander Lukashenko set to cruise ...

Russian, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko casts himself as a plain-spoken strongman and "president of the ordinary ...

Belarus was part of the Soviet Union until its collapse in 1991. The Slavic nation of 9 million people is sandwiched between Russia and Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland ... country’s ...

Belarus's authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko moved the 2025 presidential election to January to avoid protests, ensuring a likely seventh term. Lukashenko relies heavily on Russian support ...

“He lived in the Soviet Union for more than 30 years and ... Lukashenko held a referendum that changed Belarus’s white-and-red flag to one closely resembling the old Soviet design.