As Belarus votes amid repression, what drives Alexander Lukashenko, the president likely to secure a seventh term.

With many of his political opponents either jailed or exiled abroad, Alexander Lukashenko, dubbed “Europe’s last dictator,” ...

Belarusians began voting Sunday, with President Alexander Lukashenko expected to cruise to victory unchallenged for a seventh ...

Voting started following a period of almost non-existent election fever. In the capital Minsk, there’s an almost total ...

Russian, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko casts himself as a plain-spoken strongman and "president of the ordinary ...

Here's the standard high school history class summary of the Soviet Union: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was ...

And he's doing exactly that." Leonid Brezhnev, who led the Soviet Union from the 1960s until his death in 1982, is credited with failing to reform the USSR and leading it into a period of ...

The Russian leader often credits the Soviet Union with defeating Nazi Germany in his speeches, especially in the context of Russia's offensive in Ukraine. Putin has regularly accused Ukrainian ...

As Ukraine's line of defense grows thin, this unit is using a modernized Soviet-era vehicle to stop Russian forces from ...

The smiling face of President Alexander Lukashenko gazed out from campaign posters across Belarus on Sunday as the country ...

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia and Iran found common ground in viewing the U.S. as a mutual adversary. In 1997, then-Foreign Ministers Evgeny Primakov and Ali Velayati called for ...