MINSK -- The presidential election kicked off in Belarus on Sunday with polling stations opening at 8:00 am (0500 GMT) and closing at 8 pm (1700 GMT). Five candidates, including incumbent President ...

The CEC specified that around 6.9 million Belarusians are eligible to vote at 5,325 polling stations. Of these, 207 are located in hospitals, rest homes, and other public facilities, while 12 are set ...

President Alexander Lukashenko will be running to secure a seventh term, extending his 30-year rule over Belarus.

Belarus votes in orchestrated election all but certain to extend the rule of authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko ...

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko is all but certain to extend his more than three decades in power in ...

Polls opened in Belarus on Sunday for a presidential election, with longtime leader Alexander Lukashenko expected to cruise to victory for a seventh term in the absence of any viable opposition ...

Polling stations have opened in Belarus on the main voting day of the presidential election, BelTA has learned.

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

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarus votes in orchestrated election all but certain to extend the rule of authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko.

Warsaw (AFP) – Exiled Belarus opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya has told AFP the forthcoming presidential election there will be a "sham" and urged dissidents to prepare for an ...

“What’s happening in Belarus at the end of January is not an election – it’s a sham. Fair elections are impossible when independent media are silenced, political parties dissolved ...

TALLINN – An imprisoned opposition activist in Belarus resurfaced Wednesday in ... weeks before an election that is all but certain keep the country's strongman leader in power.