5 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 ...

6 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-old autocrat yet another term on top of his three decades in power. “Needed!” the posters proclaim beneath a photo of Lukashenko, his hands clasped together.

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 only president of Belarus since the office's establishment in 1994, [7] making him the current longest-serving head of state in Europe.

5 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.”

5 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% ...

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.’

Jan 25, 2025 · 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.

The official website of the President of the Republic of Belarus contains up-to-date information on trips, meetings, work schedules of A. G. Lukashenko, as well as official documents, decrees, news.

Aleksandr Lukashenko is the first President of the Republic of Belarus. He is more than a politician in the country. Aleksandr Lukashenko was at the origins of the formation and development of an independent Belarus. He is a recognized authority for fellow presidents.