President Donald Trump sparked concerns among critics about the integrity of the race in comments he made just before Inauguration Day.

Europe's top rights court on Tuesday rejected Romanian far-right candidate Calin Georgescu's appeal against the annulment of the country's 2024 presidential election after he won the first round amid claims of Russian interference.

"No observation mission has the right to monopolize election observation," Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Konstantin Kosachev said

As Democrats try to figure out how to navigate the political landscape with President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and Republicans in complete control of Congress, a national

President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, a close ally of Russia’s leader, Vladimir V. Putin, has been making signs of reaching out to the West. He is all but certain to win an election on Sunday.

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power for over 30 years, is poised to extend his rule in an election that concludes Sunday and that the opposition dismisses as a farce.

Belarus will hold a presidential election that will almost certainly give authoritarian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka a seventh term in power. Belarus's opposition has been gutted and citizens are fearful of another brutal crackdown.

BUCHAREST - The leadership of Romania's far-right AUR party decided to back pro-Russian independent candidate Călin Georgescu despite differences on key issues like NATO bases in Romania.

To end the war in Ukraine, Donald Trump is telling Russia that he's prepared to do what the United States is already doing. That's not a real plan.

In contrast, the Russian Federation has been referred to as an “imitation democracy”. It has institutions that one would find in democratic systems of government (a parliament and a directly elected president). But, among other flaws, these institutions do not function within a genuinely competitive or fair electoral environment.

Trump followed through on several of his Day One promises with a flurry of executive orders, but he left some on the table, including imposing tariffs and ending the war in Ukraine.

The move is meant to please Trump voters, punish perceived enemies and represents “the most politically saturated security action since the Oppenheimer case in the 1950s.”