Vladimir Putin one step closer to taking over a European country this year. Experts say the Russian President is suggesting that a new 2025 Union State Security Concept with Belarus supersedes the original 1999 Security Concept. The Union State is a supranational union of the two countries.

Victory “demonstrates your high political authority,” the Kremlin chief gushes about his counterpart in Minsk.

Belarusians are voting in a closely-managed presidential election that is all but certain to extend the one-man rule of Alexander Lukashenko, in power since 1994 and Europe’s longest-serving leader.

Ambassador of Belarus to Russia Aleksandr Rogozhnik thanked the president of Russia and Russian political parties for supporting Belarus as he met with leader of the parliamentary faction of the New People Party Alexei Nechayev in the State Duma on ,

Belarus held an orchestrated election over the weekend that the opposition and the EU rejected as a farce, extending President Lukashenko's more than 30 years in power.

Alexander Lukashenko, in power since 1994, won re-election Sunday in an election without real competition and slammed by the EU as a “sham”, a state exit poll said.

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MINSK (Reuters) - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko was on track to win a seventh five-year term with 87.6% of the vote in Sunday's election, according to an exit poll broadcast on state television.

Russian state media has claimed that an Oreshnik missile launch from Belarus could reach London in just 8.8 minutes.

Britain and Canada have imposed sanctions targeting the regime of Belarus' dictator president, Alexander Lukashenko, following his disputed election over the weekend to a seventh term.

Vladimir Putin is set to deploy Oreshnik hypersonic missiles to Belarus 'any day now' according to Belarusian dictator, and Kremlin stooge, Alexander Lukashenko. The so-called 'wonder weapon ...