Belarusians began voting on Sunday, with President Alexander Lukashenko expected to cruise to victory unchallenged for a seventh term, prolonging his three-decade authoritarian rule. Lukashenko -- a ...

An open admirer of the Soviet Union, he has restored Soviet-style ... and pushed for abandoning the country’s red-and-white national flag in favor of one similar to what it used as a Soviet republic.

Poland is the largest haven for Belarusian exiles, and the country’s pre-1989 history of the anti-communist mobilization resonates well with those struggling for democracy now. Almost five years after ...