Born in 1954 in the town of Kopys in northern Belarus, Lukashenko, a self-confessed troublemaker at school, was a Soviet pig farm manager before becoming ... the job after independence and under ...

Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko declared himself the winner in the country's so-called presidential elections, in which zero members of the country's opposition were allowed to take part.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who is a close ally of Vladimir Putin and supports his war in Ukraine, is standing for election for the seventh time. View on euronews ...

Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko rejected the idea of meeting with representatives of religious communities before ...

Lukashenko has further cemented his rule with consecutive elections that observers and rights groups have said were rigged. Before and after the latest presidential ballot on 9 August 2020 ...

Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power for 31 years, is set for a new five-year term in an election that an exiled opposition leader describes as "a farce".

In a lengthy news conference after casting his vote on Sunday ... “It’s a secret weakness of autocracies.” Before Sunday’s vote, Lukashenko mocked opposition leaders who he said were ...