His predecessor Boris Yeltsin had stepped down on 31 December 1999 ... More successfully, in 2020 Putin helped Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko crush a series of mass protests in the wake of ...

There were some tensions during one of their first meetings in Moscow: Boris Yeltsin was cautious about Lukashenko, the head of Belarus that just gained independence along with other former Soviet ...

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko was sworn in Tuesday to a seventh term, and he mocked those who derided him as “Europe’s last dictator” by saying his country has more ...

Lukashenko marked three decades in power last year and his political opponents have denounced the tightly orchestrated presidential election on 26 January as a farce. Alexander Lukashenko has been ...

Alexander Lukashenko on Tuesday was sworn in for the seventh time as the president of Belarus. The inauguration ceremony took place in the Ceremonial Hall, the largest venue within the Palace of ...

Dozens of journalists in Belarus have been imprisoned in recent years under a crackdown by authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko TALLINN, Estonia -- Journalist Ksenia Lutskina served only ...

Alexander Lukashenko has officially taken office as President of Belarus on Tuesday. Lukashenko assumed office for his seventh term following his victory in the January 26 elections. The ...

TALLINN, Estonia — Belarus' authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko was sworn in Tuesday to a seventh term, and he mocked those who derided him as “Europe's last dictator” by saying his ...

“We agreed that Pakistan will soon dispatch specialists in the sectors we request—perhaps 100,000, maybe 120,000‑150,000,” Lukashenko said, according to state agency BelTA. “We are ready ...

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko has been sworn in for a seventh term, and he mocked those who derided him as “Europe’s last dictator” by saying his country has more ...

MINSK, 11 April (BelTA - APP) - President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko Thursday hosted a dinner at his farm house here in honour of President Pakistan Muslim League(N) Nawaz Sharif and Prime ...

Kozyrev was the head of Russia’s Foreign Affairs Ministry from 1990 to 1996, serving with President Boris Yeltsin during Russia’s tumultuous early transition from Soviet Communism. The ministry said ...