Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya warns the West not to be taken in by the Belarussian dictator after he freed her husband in a ...

Last week, the Belarusian democratic opposition was torn apart by a particular question — should the West isolate and ...

The dictator himself later unleashed an angry tirade.

On July 18, Alexander Lukashenko signed Decree No. 282, which amended the regulation on military transport duty. The document ...

Cabinet Secretary Teddy Indra Wijaya described the meeting between Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto and Belarusian ...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has expressed his willingness to accept Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto's ...

With so many political prisoners still behind bars, Lukashenko’s selective pardons fall far short of systemic change. Yet ...

As Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko deepens his country’s dependence on Russia, dissidents fight alongside Ukraine in ...

Lukashenko says there are no political prisoners in Belarus and that those behind bars are law-breakers who chose their own fate. His spokeswoman has said he freed Tsikhanouski "strictly on ...

Siarhei Tsikhanouski and 13 other prisoners have been released from jail and are now free in Lithuania, the neighbouring country's government said.

Lukashenko has held power in Belarus, a former Soviet nation that borders both Russia and Ukraine, since 1994. An authoritarian leader, he is one of Putin's closest and oldest allies.

The West needs to keep up pressure on Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko to try to force democratic change, newly released dissident Siarhei Tsikhanouski told Reuters.