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The acclamation of Alexander Lukashenko as Belarus president for a seventh straight term was confirmed on January 26. The electoral authorities announced that the man known as “Europe’s last dictator” – the only president the country has had since it held its first “democratic” election in 1994 – had won…

German foreign minister calls election ‘bitter day’, while Vladimir Putin congratulates autocrat on ‘confident victory’

Autocrat conducts rambling press conference as his 31 years of rule are extended by an election dismissed outside the country as a sham

Belarus presidential election under scrutiny as Lukashenko seeks to maintain power amid opposition and international condemnation.

President Alexander Lukashenko will be running to secure a seventh term, hoping to extend his 30-year rule over Belarus.

Longtime president and Putin ally has silenced media and criminalised dissent as he eyes seventh term

Editorial: Five years after an inspiring democracy movement almost toppled Alexander Lukashenko, his brutal rule remains intact. The west must do more to help

Ales Bialiatski, a human rights advocate who won the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, is serving a 10-year prison sentence in Belarus and is one of hundreds of its political prisoners

Belarusian police have launched sweeping anti-riot drills ahead of January’s election in which authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko is seeking a seventh term, a signal from the authorities that they won't tolerate any protests

Human rights activists say imprisoned Belarusian opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova has resurfaced after more than 20 months without any communication from her, and has met with her father

Lawmakers in Belarus set the next presidential election for Jan. 26, a vote almost certain to extend the three-decade rule of authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko