Poland's foreign ministry has expressed disappointment over Sunday’s presidential vote in neighbouring Belarus, where strongman leader Alexander Lukashenko is poised to extend his 31-year rule following a landslide victory widely dismissed by the West as a sham.

A reporter with Agence France-Presse started saying that a large rally was taking place in Warsaw. However, Aleksandr Lukashenko argued that the event was not as large as Western mass media were trying to portray it.

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the leader of the Belarusian opposition, believes that Ukraine’s victory in the war could become an opportunity for regime change in Belarus. Source: Tsikhanouskaya speaking in Warsaw on 26 January,

Europe’s longest-serving leader won re-election in a contest widely believe to have been rigged. The result cements the power of a leader whose country is considered Russia’s staunchest ally.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is projected to take victory in the virtually uncontested election by a greater margin than he did in 2020.

A janitor found her in a doorway early on Feb. 25. Hertsen, who was 25, died in hospital on March 1 and was buried at a Warsaw cemetery. She had left Belarus several years earlier and moved to Warsaw, which in recent years has become a hub for Belarusians ...

Poland’s presidency of the European Union is firmly focused on security. The challenges and contradictions of defending the bloc and its values are stark at Poland's border with Belarus, Russia's ally in its war on Ukraine.

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Belarus plans to host three military drills — Search, Interaction, and Echelon — along with members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), the Russia-led bloc Moscow set up in 2002, over a decade after the collapse of the Warsaw Pact.

A Polish court on Friday convicted a man of raping, robbing and killing a Belarussian woman in Warsaw and handed him a life sentence in prison with a requirement for therapy. The Regional Court in ...

Belarus autocrat Alexander Lukashenko said Sunday that his jailed opponents had "opened their mouths too widely" as he voted in an election set to extend his three-decade rule in the