President Donald Trump sparked concerns among critics about the integrity of the race in comments he made just before Inauguration Day.

Belarusian leader and Russian ally Alexander Lukashenko extended his 31-year rule on Monday after electoral officials declared him the winner of a presidential election that Western governments rejected as a sham.

Europe's top rights court on Tuesday rejected Romanian far-right candidate Calin Georgescu's appeal against the annulment of the country's 2024 presidential election after he won the first round amid claims of Russian interference.

Europe’s longest-serving leader won re-election in a contest widely believe to have been rigged. The result cements the power of a leader whose country is considered Russia’s staunchest ally.

Belarus will hold a presidential election that will almost certainly give authoritarian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka a seventh term in power. Belarus's opposition has been gutted and citizens are fearful of another brutal crackdown.

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.

As Democrats try to figure out how to navigate the political landscape with President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and Republicans in complete control of Congress, a national

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power for over 30 years, is poised to extend his rule in an election that concludes Sunday and that the opposition dismisses as a farce.

To end the war in Ukraine, Donald Trump is telling Russia that he's prepared to do what the United States is already doing. That's not a real plan.

In contrast, the Russian Federation has been referred to as an “imitation democracy”. It has institutions that one would find in democratic systems of government (a parliament and a directly elected president). But, among other flaws, these institutions do not function within a genuinely competitive or fair electoral environment.

Elon Musk, a Trump friend and advisor, drew immediate public outrage when he appeared to deliver the Nazi salute to Trump supporters.

The country held an orchestrated election virtually guaranteed to give the 70-year-old autocrat yet another term on top of his three decades in power.