3 days ago · Brussels has threatened Belarus with a fresh raft of sanctions after President Alexander Lukashenko looked certain to win his seventh consecutive election since 1994 — a vote broadly understood ...

4 days ago · Belarus held an orchestrated vote virtually guaranteed to give 70-year-old autocratic President Alexander Lukashenko yet another term on top of his three decades in power. “Today’s sham election in Belarus has been neither free, nor fair,” EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas and EU enlargement commissioner Marta Kos said in a joint statement.

Oct 14, 2024 · Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, one of Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s closest allies, has actively encouraged would-be asylum-seekers to come to the country, where his security forces help deliver them to the Polish border and refuse to …

Jan 23, 2025 · The program of hybrid warfare was designed to sow political discord in EU countries. It began in the spring of 2021 as the country came under sanction from the bloc for a crackdown on dissent following a fraudulent election that gave the country’s dictator Alexander Lukashenko a sixth term as president.

4 days ago · Longtime Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko won a “sham” presidential election on Sunday with 87.6 percent of vote, according to an official exit poll, marking his seventh term as leader of the Eastern European country. Four opposition candidates appeared on the ballot — but all were loyal to Lukashenko, who has led Belarus for more than 30 years.

4 days ago · Belarus held an orchestrated vote virtually guaranteed to give 70-year-old autocratic President Alexander Lukashenko yet another term on top of his three decades in power.

3 days ago · Belarus’ opposition activists and Western officials on Monday denounced an orchestrated election that extends the more than three-decade rule of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko.The country’s exiled opposition leader called the result “sheer nonsense.”

3 days ago · Alexander Lukashenko has, to date, been the only leader of Belarus since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. ... The EU's foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, said the election had been a blatant ...

4 days ago · The autocrat Alexander Lukashenko won 87.6% of the vote according to an official exit poll. ... Lukashenko extends three-decade rule in election described as 'sham' by EU. The autocrat Alexander ...

Aug 5, 2024 · The European Union has imposed sanctions on 28 officials accused of human rights violations in Belarus and links to the ongoing crackdown against opponents of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko.