After an election win which has been widely criticised as illegitimate, Alexander Lukashenko faced questions from the BBC's Russia editor Steve Rosenberg.

Alexander Lukashenko, Europe’s longest-serving leader, has extended his 31-year rule in Belarus after being declared the winner of a presidential election that his exiled opponents and Western countries have denounced as a sham.

The European Commission proposed on Tuesday imposing tariffs on more agricultural products and certain nitrogen-based fertilisers from Russia and its ally Belarus to prevent a potential threat to EU food security.

President Alexander Lukashenko, often dubbed "Europe's last dictator," offered to free Anastassia Nuhfer whose arrest was linked to protests in 2020, a source told the AP.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is projected to take victory in the virtually uncontested election by a greater margin than he did in 2020.

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko is all but certain to extend his more than three decades in power in Sunday’s election that is rejected by the opposition as a farce after years of sweeping repressions.

President Donald Trump's new Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that a U.S. citizen imprisoned in Belarus under Joe Biden has since been released.

The E.U. has called the election a sham, and President Alexander Lukashenko has said he’s “too busy” to even campaign.

The European Commission on Tuesday proposed slapping tariffs on additional farm imports from Russia and its ally Belarus -- while continuing to spare agricultural goods and fertiliser bound for third countries.

Documents obtained by OCCRP and analyzed by BIC helped reveal how Belarus’s Integral continues to produce and supply microchips for Russian military industrial complex using imported Western components despite sanctions.

The Belarusian Foreign Ministry emphasized that the European Union’s "statement deliberately twists the facts and does not take into account the objective reality in Belarus and in the world"