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Alexander Lukashenko

December 2025

  • Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya welcomes released prisoner Ales Bialatski as he arrives at the US embassy in Vilnius, Lithuania, on Saturday 13 December.

    Belarus releases 123 prisoners including opposition leaders after US lifts sanctions

    Nobel prize winner Ales Bialiatski and opposition figure Maria Kalesnikava among those freed after US talks with Alexander Lukashenko

October 2025

  • Zelenskyy said that Ukrainian and European officials would meet at the end of the week to discuss the details of a ceasefire plan.

    Europe live with Jakub Krupa
    Zelenskyy says Ukrainian and European officials will meet to discuss details of ceasefire plan – as it happened

  • Imprisoned couple Katsiaryna Bakhvalava and Ihar Ilyash

    ‘People are dying’: Belarusians warn Lukashenko’s crackdown is far from over

September 2025

  • Alexander Lukashenko

    ‘His drug is power’: Lukashenko reaches out to the west

  • Soldier with sub-machinegun behind fortification

    Display of firepower in Russia-Belarus war games stirs unease across Europe

  • People gather at a press conference, some wearing red and white costumes and masks. A woman, the exiled Belarusian opposition leader, stands in the centre

    Belarus prisoners forcibly deported to Lithuania after US deal, says opposition

  • Lithuanian citizen Elena Ramanauskiene leaving a bus after her release along with other political prisoners from prison in Belarus

    Belarus frees 52 political prisoners, including foreigners, after visit by US delegation

June 2025

  • Syarhei Tsikhanouski greeting someone.

    ‘My husband is free!’ Belarus opposition leader freed after nearly five years in jail

    Syarhei Tsikhanouski arrested shortly after announcing candidacy in rigged 2020 election won by Lukashenko

April 2025

  • a man in a red Maga cap sits at a table with his hands clasped

    Elon Musk boosting influencer who platforms far-right Putin allies

    Mario Nawfal has interviewed Serbian, Belarusian and Slovakian leaders and Russian minister of foreign affairs

March 2025

  • The two men walk side side by side. To their right is a guard of honour

    Myanmar junta’s promise of elections denounced as ‘sham’ by experts

    There are fears military will deploy further violence in run-up to any poll, which is unlikely to be viewed as credible

February 2025

  • people hold signs that read 'USAID saves lives' and 'lose USAID China wins'

    Authoritarian regimes around the world cheer on dismantling of USAid

    Elon Musk-led razing of US foreign aid agency led strong-arm rulers in Hungary, Belarus and elsewhere to celebrate

January 2025

  • The election has been rejected as a sham by the US and EU

    Belarus's re-elected president Lukashenko says political opponents 'chose' to go to prison – video

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  • Anti-Lukashenko protesters hold a historical Belarusian flag during a march in Warsaw

    Belarus opposition and western leaders denounce stage-managed Lukashenko victory

  • Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko

    Lukashenko says he has ‘no regrets’ about Belarus helping Russia to invade Ukraine

  • Alexander Lukashenko at a press conference.

    Lukashenko wins seventh term as Belarus president in election rejected as sham

  • Polls open in Belarus with Lukashenko’s 30-year rule set to be extended

  • ‘A ritual for a dictator’: Lukashenko critics decry Belarus election

  • The Guardian view on Belarus’s election: broken democratic dreams

October 2024

  • Viachaslau Hranouski standing a street

    ‘I fight Russia to topple the tyrant of Belarus’: the Lukashenko guard who defected to the front line in Ukraine

    Viachaslau Hranouski, a former policeman responsible for protecting the Belarus leader, reveals why he fled to join Ukraine’s army

June 2024

  • Andrei Gnyot gives a V for victory sign with one hand as he holds papers in the other

    Serbian court approves extradition of anti-Lukashenko activist to Belarus

    Andrei Gnyot says he fears for his life after organising alliance of athletes to oppose country’s dictator in 2020
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