Shorouk Express As expected, incumbent President Alexander Lukashenka was re-elected for a seventh term in Belarus’s January 26 presidential election. According to the official results, the autocrat won 86.2 percent of the vote. Of his four rivals – all more or less close to the regime – none received more than 3.21 percent. The turnout…
Shorouk Express The human rights activist lives in exile in Lithuania, like 60,000 of his fellow Belarusians. We met him on one of his recent visits to Brussels, where he often represents Viasna, the largest human rights centre in Belarus, and the Belarusian Popular Front founder and 2022 Nobel Peace Prize co-laureate Ales Bialiatski, currently…
Shorouk Express The election was originally scheduled for summer but Alexander Lukashenka’s government decided to bring it forward to January. Political scientists and commentators suggest two explanations. The first is that the winter weather will reduce the likelihood of protests. After the violent repression of the protests that followed the 2020 presidential election, which Lukashenka…
