Born in 1954 in the then-Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic, Lukashenko held management ... to the country's Supreme Soviet in 1990. He won Belarus's first democratic presidential election ...

ZURICH (AP) — 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 ...

Russian officials say a number of countries including China, Brazil, Cuba and former Soviet republics such as Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Belarus have expressed interest in taking part in the ...

Russia and Belarus remain banned from all international ice hockey competitions. The IIHF announced Tuesday that it "believes it is not yet safe to reintegrate" the two countries for the upcoming ...

The International Ice Hockey Federation council will continue to bar Russia and Belarus from its championships through the 2025-26 season. The council stated it "believes it is not yet safe to ...

MOSCOW, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said that ignoring the Soviet Union's role in liberating Nazi German death camps such as Auschwitz and not inviting surviving family ...

“Availing myself of this opportunity, I express my expectation that the friendly and cooperative relations between the DPRK and the Republic of Belarus would develop in conformity with the ...

Rwanda-backed rebels who seized a major city in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have declared a unilateral ceasefire on humanitarian grounds. The M23 rebel group announced on Monday that ...