Lukashenko sworn in for seventh term in Belarus, tells critics ‘you have no future’ Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled since 1994, asserts that Belarus has more democracy than the West ...

Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenko was sworn in for a seventh time on March 25 as human rights groups said the authoritarian leader’s rule was unlawful.

Belarus held an orchestrated election over the weekend that the opposition and the EU rejected as a farce, extending President Lukashenko's more than 30 years in power.

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 ...

Longtime Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has been declared winner of a disputed presidential election, securing a seventh straight term, according to the country’s electoral body ...

The $64,000 question is who -- or what -- next. There has been speculation about one of Lukashenko's sons taking the reins, notably his youngest, Mikalay, known as Kolya, who is just 20.

Belarus: Strongman Lukashenko set for 7th term in power Published 01/26/2025 last updated 01/26/2025 Exit polls have Alexander Lukashenko on track to extend his 31 year rule with nearly 88% of the ...

Belarus’s Alexander Lukashenko set to extend his 30-year rule The E.U. has called Sunday’s election a sham. Lukashenko, running virtually unopposed, said he was “too busy” to even campaign.

Lukashenko addresses the Belarusian People’s Congress in Minsk on April 25, 2024 [Press Service of the President of the Republic of Belarus/Handout via Reuters] ‘Afraid to look him in the eye’ ...

But in Belarus, Lukashenko's eldest son Viktor only heads the National Olympic Committee, which is a social organization, while Nikolai Lukashenko has no official role at all, Karbalevich pointed out.

Kolya Lukashenko began his education in Belarus, but after a wave of protests against the fraudulent presidential election in 2020, he dropped out and moved to Moscow. There, he entered a gymnasium ...

Three years ago Aleksandr Lukashenko paid a visit to the Polesie Radiation and Ecological Reserve, the region that bore the brunt of contamination following the Chernobyl accident. During his ...