In power since 1994, Alexander Lukashenko is assured of a new five-year term in a vote that the exiled opposition describes as a sham. It has called on Belarusians to tick a box that allows them to reject all the candidates on offer.

On January 26, presidential "elections" will occur in Belarus, which experts describe as an empty spectacle and a disinformation ploy. Alexander Lukashenko aims to demonstrate his strength and control over the country in this manner.

The analysts at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) point out that Russia's attempts to de facto annex Belarus pose strategic risks to the United States, NATO and Ukraine. Source: ISW Quote from ISW: "Moscow’s effort to de facto annex Belarus through the Union State framework,

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Exiled opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya has accused Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of playing games with the West by drip-feeding releases of political prisoners ahead of an election on Sunday in which he is set to extend his 31-year rule.

Russian troops used Belarus as a staging ground during their February 2022 assault on Kyiv. Meanwhile, Lukashenko has boasted that Belarus is playing host to dozens of Russian nuclear weapons, and revealed in December that he was anticipating the arrival of new hypersonic missiles .

OSCE observers not invited to monitor upcoming presidential election in Belarus. Belarus to host over 13,000 Russian troops for Zapad-2025 joint military drills with Russia. Belarusian state TV airs a propaganda film with jailed journalists,

Belarus and Russia are discussing the possibility of signing an interstate program in the field of aircraft building until 2035.

It’s needed, the government in Warsaw says, because Russia and Belarus are waging a particular kind of hybrid warfare: helping groups of migrants — mostly from Africa or the Middle East — to break through the border to provoke and destabilize Poland and the rest of Europe.

In the run-up to the presidential election in Belarus, IFIMES published an analytical report outlining the economic and geopolitical challenges that Belarus has had to face in recent years.

Russia is nearing its goal of completely controlling its neighbor and closest ally Belarus, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) has said. Analysis by the Washington, D.C.-based independent ...

Ales Bialiatski, a human rights advocate who won the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, is serving a 10-year prison sentence in Belarus and is one of hundreds of its political prisoners.