Officials say that Russia and Belarus will hold a joint military exercise in September, part of efforts by the two neighbors ...

We must be strong and vigilant and strengthen the country's defense capability, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko ...

President Aleksandar Vučić said the protesters were backed by Western countries he did not name, and said they wanted to ...

Aleksandr Lukashenko has awarded himself a seventh term as president of Belarus, with the West calling the so-called vote a sham and introducing additional sanctions. Belarusian political observer ...

I look forward to working together to further deepen and broaden our ties in new areas of cooperation to more fully realize ...

Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, Belarus’s autocratic president and Russia’s closest ally, has taken steps to soften his country’s ...

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 ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko gestures while speaking ...

Belarusian leader and Russian ally Alexander Lukashenko extended his 31-year rule on Monday after electoral officials declared him the winner of a presidential election Western governments rejected as ...

Russian television Dozhd revealed that the U.S. citizen released by the Belarusian regime is 56-year-old Nikolai Shugayev.

The E.U. has called Sunday’s election a sham. Lukashenko, running virtually unopposed, said he was “too busy” to even campaign.

Belarus held an orchestrated election over the weekend that the opposition and the EU rejected as a farce, extending authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko's more than three decades in power.