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Lukashenko used to play football, but stopped playing during his presidency. [289] His two elder sons also play ice hockey, sometimes alongside their father. [290] Lukashenko started training in cross-country running as a child, and in the 2000s still competed at the national level. [291] He is a keen skier and ice hockey forward. [292]
Exiled opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya has accused Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of playing games with the West by drip-feeding releases of political prisoners ahead of an ...
VILNIUS (Reuters) -Belarus rights activists pressed Germany for answers on Friday as to why Belarusian political prisoners, including a prominent and popular opposition leader, had not been ...
For three decades, European leaders have come and gone by the dozens, but Alexander Lukashenko remains in absolute control of Belarus. Lukashenko, 69, was dubbed “Europe's last dictator” early ...
During 2020 Belarusian presidential election and protests, the number of political prisoners recognized by Viasna Human Rights Centre rose dramatically to 1062 as of 16 February 2022. [5] Several people died after the use of unlawful and abusive force (including firearms) by law enforcement officials during 2020 protests. [6]
The Belarusian partisan movement, also called the Belarusian Civil War, is an ongoing campaign of resistance against the authoritarian regime of Alexander Lukashenko. It began in response to the violent suppression of the 2020–2021 Belarusian protests. The partisans aim to depose Lukashenko's government and expel Russian troops from Belarus.
(Reuters) - Fifty-five Nobel prize winners have signed an open letter urging Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko to free more political prisoners after a human rights group said 18 were ...
The 2020–2021 Belarusian protests were a series of mass political demonstrations and protests against the Belarusian government and President Alexander Lukashenko. [71] [72] The largest anti-government protests in the history of Belarus, the demonstrations began in the lead-up to and during the 2020 presidential election, in which Lukashenko sought his sixth term in office.