PATRIARCH KIRILL of Moscow has praised Alexander Lukashenko on his declared re-election as President of Belarus, despite fears of new restrictions on religious freedom and church activity.

The Russian Foreign Ministry slammed the West's unsubstantiated statements on the election in Belarus as interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign state.

No matter how hard Western countries try to rewrite our history, the two greatest events of the last century - the Parade of Hope and the Victory Parade - will never fade from people’s memory and from textbooks.

Alexander Lukashenko, Europe’s longest-serving leader, has extended his 31-year rule in Belarus after being declared the winner of a presidential election that his exiled opponents and Western countries have denounced as a sham.

Belarusians are voting in a closely-managed presidential election that is all but certain to extend the one-man rule of Alexander Lukashenko, in power since 1994 and Europe’s longest-serving leader.

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In 2024, more than 40 provocations were committed on the border of Belarus from Ukraine. Reported in The State Border Committee of the Republic.

MINSK - Reclusive Moscow-allied Belarus will hold a presidential election on Jan 26, with President Alexander Lukashenko set to cruise through to victory unchallenged for a seventh term, prolonging his three-decade authoritarian rule. Mr Lukashenko – a 70-year-old former collective farm boss – has been in power in Belarus since 1994.

The E.U. has called the election a sham, and President Alexander Lukashenko has said he’s “too busy” to even campaign.

Near a border checkpoint between Belarus and Ukraine, anti-tank spikes and concrete pyramids block what was once a bustling road between two peaceful neighbours.

Ukrainian drones hit an oil refinery 250 miles east of Moscow in a huge wave of attacks on Russian power plants, say military sources. A large fire exploded at the refinery in Kstovo city in the Nizhny Novgorod region following the attack, the Ukrainian military said, adding it was assessing the scale of damage there.