EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said in a statement released on Sunday, "Today's sham election in Belarus has been neither free ... holding traditional flags banned for use in Belarus by ...

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power for over 30 years, is poised to extend his rule ...

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.

The reds and whites in this work symbolize wounds and bandages but also echo the white-red-white flag. Individual wounds become inscriptions ... a venue rich in political meaning: the Museum of Free ...

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

Either maintaining Russia’s military bases in Syria or finding an alternative outpost in the Mediterranean will prove ...

Lukashenko, then 39, won Belarus’s first, and so far only, presidential election deemed free and fair by outside ... changed Belarus’s white-and-red flag to one closely resembling the old ...

Mr Lukashenko's support for the war in Ukraine has led to the rupture of Belarus' ties with the US and the European Union. Both said in the run-up to Sunday's vote that it could not be free and ...

and pushed for abandoning the country’s red-and-white national flag in favor of one similar to what it used as a Soviet republic. Belarus' top security agency kept its fearsome Soviet-era name ...

The leader also pushed the country to abandon its red-and-white national flag, in favour of one similar to that which it used as a Soviet republic. Belarus' top security agency propagates fear ...