“You can congratulate the Republic of Belarus, we have elected a president,” Igor Karpenko, the head of the country’s Central Election Commission, told a news conference in the early hours ...

Thirty years ago last month, the Budapest Memorandum was signed. Aimed at providing security assurances to Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan in exchange for their entry into the Nuclear Non ...

Despite periodic efforts to appease the West, the only leader post-Soviet Belarus has knownhas lived up to the nickname. The outcome of this election will not only reinforce Lukashenko's rule but ...

While Belarus has not directly involved itself in the war in Ukraine, Lukashenko has allowed his country to act as a staging area for Russia's forces, and economic and military ties between the ...

and essentially tore up the agreements on security assurances that were provided as part of the Budapest Memorandum in exchange for giving up nuclear weapons MINSK, April 10. /TASS/. Belarus and ...

claiming at the time that he had conveyed a call for peace to Belarus. By October 2023, Szijjártó returned to Minsk, this ...

Budapest receives the bulk of its gas through the Turkish Stream pipeline and its branches through Bulgaria and Serbia, the capacity of which can be increased. With this in mind, Hungary could ...

In this photo released by Belarus' Presidential Press Service, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, right, takes part in an industry award ceremony in Minsk, Belarus, on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025.

Belarus Election Is Poised to Extend the 30-Year Rule of 'Europe's Last Dictator' The last time Belarus staged a presidential election in 2020, authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko was ...