With many of his political opponents either jailed or exiled abroad, Alexander Lukashenko, dubbed “Europe’s last dictator,” is all but certain to add a seventh term.

An often overlooked feature of the Soviet Union and its Eastern Bloc states' cultural character, we select five bands from behind the Iron Curtain.

President Aleksandar Vucic of Serbia, battered by months of nationwide protests, is struggling to weather his biggest ...

The Slavic nation of 9 million people is sandwiched between Russia and Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland ... the ...

Voting started following a period of almost non-existent election fever. In the capital Minsk, there’s an almost total absence of billboards promoting the candidates and there has been little in the ...

Today in History for Feb. 15: ...

The Slavic nation of 9 million people is sandwiched between Russia, Ukraine, Latvia ... and-white national flag, in favour of one similar to that which it used as a Soviet republic.

The Slavic nation of 9 million people is sandwiched between Russia and Ukraine, Latvia ... s red-and-white national flag in favor of one similar to what it used as a Soviet republic.

Within a year of assuming office, Lukashenko held a referendum that changed Belarus’s white-and-red flag to one closely resembling the old Soviet design. He told World War II veterans ...

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania -- former Soviet states that are now European Union and NATO ... “If protesters are not waving ...

On January 15, VTsIOM published its assessment of Russians' knowledge of history — the results turned out to be contradictory ...