Belarussian leader pleased with elections, referendum results
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MINSK. Oct 18 (Interfax-West) - Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko has expressed his pleasure over the results of the parliamentary elections and a constitutional referendum held on Sunday.
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A jailed Belarussian opposition activist has ended a 53-day hunger strike aimed at rallying opposition to President Alexander Lukashenko, his wife said on Tuesday, declaring that he sounded in good spirits.
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Speaking to parliament on Wednesday the president of Belarus, Aleksander Lukashenko, called for the restoration of order in the model business, the prevention of human trafficking and also said that advertisers ...
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MINSK, Belarus  - Belarussian President Alexander  Lukashenko said Monday voters had shown overwhelming support  for his plan to stay in power, but hundreds took to the streets  to protest against what they said was a rigged referendum.
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Despite international criticism and opposition protests, Russia has avoided casting any doubts on the outcome of a controversial referendum in Belarus, a former Soviet state which Moscow sees as a buffer ...
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Belarusians voted Sunday in a referendum on whether to change this ex-Soviet republic's constitution and allow authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko to run for a third term.
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KIEV, Ukraine - Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko celebrated his apparent victory in Ukraine&#39;s presidential election Monday, thanking his supporters for spending weeks camped out on freezing streets in a show of force that helped overturn results of a
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MINSK - Legislative elections in Belarus held at the same time as a referendum on whether President Alexander Lukashenko should be allowed to seek a third term fell âsignificantly shortâ of democratic standards, foreign observers said here Monday.
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The president of Belarus, confident of victory in a referendum Sunday to extend his mandate, promised to serve his people better if they voted "yes" and told the West to keep criticism of his rule to itself.
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Georgian leader Mikhail Saakashvili celebrated victory on Monday in a presidential election which his opponents branded as rigged but which won broad support in the West.
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MINSK, Belarus  - The president of Belarus,  confident of victory in a referendum Sunday to extend his rule,  promised to serve his people better if they voted "yes" and  told the West to keep criticism of his rule to itself.
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The president of Belarus, confident of victory in a referendum Sunday to extend his rule, promised to serve his people better if they voted "yes" and told the West to keep criticism of his rule to itself.
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Belarus awaited the outcome of a referendum on Monday to determine whether President Alexander Lukashenko, accused in the West of running roughshod over human rights, can run for office for a third time.
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Preliminary results from Belarus&#39;s Sunday referendum vote showed 77.3 percent of the registered voters backed President Alexander Lukashenko&#39;s proposal to remove a constitutional
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Pavel Sheremet, head of special projects at Russia's Channel One television station, was in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, to cover Sunday's referendum on the presidential ambitions of Mr Lukashenko - described ...
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Belarusians has overwhelmingly approved a referendum on scrapping presidential term limits, the Central Elections Commission announced, allowing the authoritarian leader of this ex-Soviet republic to seek a new ...
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Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko says voters have shown overwhelming support for his plan to stay in power but hundreds took to the streets to protest against what they call a rigged referendum.