After an election win which has been widely criticised as illegitimate, Alexander Lukashenko faced questions from the BBC's Russia editor Steve Rosenberg.

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.

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko is all but certain to extend his more than three decades in power in Sunday’s election that is rejected by the opposition as a farce after years of sweeping repressions.

The European Commission proposed on Tuesday imposing tariffs on more agricultural products and certain nitrogen-based fertilisers from Russia and its ally Belarus to prevent a potential threat to EU food security.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is projected to take victory in the virtually uncontested election by a greater margin than he did in 2020.

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

President Donald Trump's new Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that a U.S. citizen imprisoned in Belarus under Joe Biden has since been released.

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Alexander Lukashenko, often referred to as "Europe's last dictator," has ruled Belarus for over three decades. His tenure, which began in 1994, has been marked by a combination of political manoeuvring,

A woman has been sentenced after crashing an unregistered electric dirt bike during a police chase. Natalia Burke, 21, of Queensway, Melksham, Wiltshire, sped away from a marked police motorcycle and led the officer along Spa Road and into Coronation Road in Melksham on 9 July. She then crashed into a wall before fleeing the scene.

Polish police have found no evidence that the director of the Center for Eastern European Studies, Jan Malicki, was beaten. He simply fell down the stairs, being completely drunk, but explained the injuries to the "attack of unknown persons.