An American was among three people released from prison by the government of Belarus, the Trump administration announced Wednesday. Adam Boehler, the US special envoy for hostages, told reporters ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Belarus has released three people, including an American and a journalist, who had been detained for more than three years, U.S. officials said Wednesday. The name of the ...

After years of the U.S. trying to isolate Russia’s closest ally, a meeting with Belarus’s president points to better relations, raising hopes of loosening his repression and his embrace of Moscow.

Lukashenko, Belarus’s autocratic president and Russia ... Europe bureau chief for The Times based in Warsaw. He covers a region that stretches from the Baltic republics of Estonia, Latvia ...

On Sunday, an already-disputed election in Belarus is widely expected to keep Alexander Lukashenko in power. A close ally of Vladimir Putin, Lukashenko has been nicknamed Europe’s last dictator ...

The smiling face of President Alexander Lukashenko gazed out from campaign posters across Belarus on Sunday as the country held an orchestrated election virtually guaranteed to give the 70-year ...

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

Belarus has "unilaterally" freed an American woman from detention, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Sunday, as the Kremlin-allied country held an orchestrated election poised to give ...

The last time Belarus staged a presidential election in 2020, authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko was declared the winner with 80% of the vote. That triggered cries of fraud, months of ...

What About Belarus's Opposition? For the last presidential election in 2020, something happened that hadn't been seen in years. After several opposition leaders were jailed before the election ...