After years of the U.S. trying to isolate Russia’s closest ally, a meeting with Belarus’s president points to better ...

An Interior Ministry video showed helmeted riot police beating their shields with truncheons as a way to prepare for protest dispersals. Another featured an officer arresting a man posing as a voter, ...

With many of his political opponents either jailed or exiled abroad, Alexander Lukashenko, dubbed “Europe’s last dictator,” ...

Belarus has released three people, including an American and a journalist, who had been detained for more than three years, U ...

The list of what police view as "extremist material," which is regularly updated by the Interior Ministry, includes numerous websites of independent media that are banned in Belarus. Simply ...

21, 2022. (AP Photo, File) Protesters carry a man injured during clashes with police amid anti-government demonstrations in Minsk, Belarus, on Aug. 10, 2020. (AP Photo, File) Riot police detain ...

“Today’s sham election in Belarus has been neither free ... to make it more difficult for authorities to rig the vote. Police conducted large-scale drills before the election.

A journalist was among at least three people jailed in Belarus who the White House said Wednesday were released following a ...

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

At least four were killed, including Alyaksandr Taraykouski, who was shot in the chest while approaching police with his hands raised. But don’t confuse Belarus’s likely quiet for a lack of ...

The apparent leader of a cultlike group known as the Zizians has been arrested in Maryland along with another member of the ...

Police conducted large-scale drills before the ... twisting his arm next to a ballot box. Belarus initially refused to allow observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ...