The Latest Breaking News from Alexander Lukashenko

Opposition calls for non-recognition of vote set to extend Lukashenko’s 30-year rule.

PM dismisses criticism that a plan to temporarily stop accepting asylum applications violates human rights

Polish President Andrzej Duda has condemned the government's plan for a temporary suspension of the right to asylum for irregular migrants, calling it a “fatal mistake.”

Increasing alliance between Russia and North Korea goes beyond transferring weapons, Ukraine leader says; Belarusian president says Putin’s nuclear weapons threat will ‘cool the ardour’ of Western adversaries. What we know on day 964

A Belarusian-American has had his prison term extended to a total of 13 1/2 years in the latest move in a multi-pronged crackdown on dissent by Belarus’ authoritarian government

Belarusian opposition leader calls for release of political prisoners in Belarus amid crackdown by Lukashenko. Ongoing human rights violations underscore n...

Lithuania has referred hard-line Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko and members of his regime to the International Criminal Court, accusing them of committing crimes against humanity by forcing their own people to flee the country

Belarus authorities detain and interrogate teachers involved in online education project deemed extremist, part of broader crackdown on dissent.

Belarusians are experiencing a new wave of Russification as Moscow expands its economic, political and cultural dominance to overtake the identity of its neighbor

An appeals court in Serbia has overturned an earlier ruling that a prominent critic of the authoritarian government in Belarus should be extradited to that country and said that the case must be retried

Learn about the challenges faced by Belarusians fleeing political oppression, with the regime targeting dissidents abroad and the international community m...