Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power for over 30 years, is poised to extend his rule ...
24, 2025. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov) Belarusian presidential candidate Hanna Kanapatskaya, 2nd right, speaks with a man as she stands at an agitation picket ahead of presidential elections in Minsk, ...
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 ...
Belarus, on Dec. 30, 2020. (Maxim Guchek/BelTA Pool Photo via AP, File) A woman waves an old Belarusian national flag from a roof as opposition supporters march to Independence Square in Minsk, ...
An open admirer of the Soviet Union, he has restored Soviet-style controls on the economy, discouraged use of the Belarusian language in favor of Russian, and pushed for abandoning the country’s ...