2 days ago · Alexander Lukashenko, Europe’s longest-serving leader, has extended his 31-year rule in Belarus after being declared the winner of a presidential election that his exiled opponents and Western ...

Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko [c] (also transliterated as Alyaksandr Ryhoravich Lukashenka; [d] born 30 August 1954) is a Belarusian politician who has been the first and to date, only president of Belarus since the office's establishment in 1994, [7] making him the current longest-serving head of state in Europe.

2 days ago · Belarus’ opposition activists and Western officials on Monday denounced an orchestrated election that extends the more than three-decade rule of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko.The country’s exiled opposition leader called the result “sheer nonsense.”

4 days ago · Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko is all but certain to extend his more than three decades in power in Sunday’s election that is rejected by the opposition as a farce after years of sweeping repressions.

3 days ago · President Alexander Lukashenko will be running to secure a seventh term, hoping to extend his 30-year rule over Belarus. Published On 26 Jan 2025 26 Jan 2025 Exit poll shows Lukashenko with 87.6% ...

3 days ago · 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 ...

Jan 19, 2025 · Alexander Lukashenko, Belarusian politician who espoused communist principles and who became president of the country in 1994. His decades-long autocratic rule, which was characterized by suppression of free speech and widespread election fraud, earned him the nickname ‘Europe’s last dictator.’

3 days ago · Belarusian leader and Russian ally Alexander Lukashenko extended his 31-year rule on Monday after electoral officials declared him the winner of a presidential election Western governments ...

4 days ago · President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, a close ally of Russia’s leader, Vladimir V. Putin, has been making signs of reaching out to the West. He is all but certain to win an election on Sunday.

On 9 September 2001, Aleksandr Lukashenko was re-elected President of the Republic of Belarus with 75.6% of the vote. The main priority of Aleksandr Lukashenko’s second presidential term was to strengthen the national statehood relying on the robust social and economic development of the country.