3 days ago · Belarus’ opposition activists and Western officials on Monday denounced an orchestrated election that extends the more than three-decade rule of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko.The country’s exiled opposition leader called the result “sheer nonsense.”

The Belarusian opposition consists of groups and individuals in Belarus seeking to challenge, from 1988 to 1991, the authorities of Soviet Belarus, and since 1995, the leader of the country Alexander Lukashenko (allied with Vladimir Putin), whom supporters of the movement often consider to be a dictator. [3]

4 days ago · Opposition leader calls election ‘a senseless farce’ Opposition leader-in-exile Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, who fled Belarus under government pressure after challenging the president in 2020, told The Associated Press that Sunday’s election was “a senseless farce, a Lukashenko ritual.”

4 days ago · Belarus held an orchestrated vote virtually guaranteed to give 70-year-old autocratic President Alexander Lukashenko yet another term on top of his three decades in power. ... Kallas and some EU foreign ministers are expected to meet Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya on Sunday night in Brussels for an informal, closed-door ...

5 days ago · In Belarus today there is fear of instability, fear of the unknown, and fear of the government. All work in Alexander Lukashenko's favour. 'A performance and a sham': Belarusian opposition ...

6 days ago · The opposition leader insists she still "truly believes" in change. "2020 was a huge shift in mentality in Belarus. I don't know how long it will take, but that shift will not disappear."

4 days ago · Opposition leader-in-exile Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, who fled Belarus under government pressure after challenging the president in 2020, told The Associated Press that Sunday's election was "a ...

5 days ago · Belarus was a staging ground for Moscow’s attack, and Mr. Lukashenko remains an ardent ally of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. ... None of the leaders of the opposition in 2020 have been ...

Mar 6, 2023 · A Belarus court has sentenced the country's main opposition leader to 15 years' jail in absentia. Svetlana Tikhanovskaya fled Belarus in 2020 after running against authoritarian leader...

4 days ago · Opposition leader-in-exile Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, who fled Belarus under government pressure after challenging the president in 2020, told The Associated Press that Sunday’s election was “a ...