When Belarus held the presidential election last time in 2020, the authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko was announced by 80 % of the votes as winners. This triggered the voices of fraud, a few months of protests and the severe suppression of thousands of people arrested.
Lukashenko did not want to have the turbulent risk of turbulentness again because of the 30 -year -old iron fist rule that opposed his thirty years. From the warmth of August to January, the demonstrators were unlikely to fill the possibility of the street.
Because many of his political opponents are either sentenced to prison or exile abroad, Lukashenko, 70, returned to the voting. When the election ended on Sunday, he would almost increase the seventh term. Become the only leader and the only leader of most people. Later Soviet Belarus once knew.
This is a knowledge about Belarus, elected and its relationship with Russia:
Belarus has always been part of the Soviet Union until the closure in 1991. 9 million people in Slavia were sandwiched between Russia and Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, and latter three NATO members. Nazi Germany was occupied by Nazi Germany during World War II.
It is closely related to Moscow and Russian President Vladimir Putin-he has been in power for 25 years.
Lukashenko, a former national farm, was first elected in 1994. After the chaotic and painful free market reform, he was angry with the disaster plunge of living standards. He promised to fight corruption.
During his entire rule, he relied on Russia's subsidies and political support to allow Belarus to invade Ukraine in 2022, and later agreed to receive some tactical nuclear weapons in Russia.
Lukashenko was called "the last dictator of Europe" in the early stage of his term. Elections to expand rule.
He is an open worshipers of the Soviet Union. He restored the Soviet -style economic control, and did not encourage the use of Belarusian to use the use of Russia and promote the abandonment of the country's red and white flags. Essence
Belarus's top security agencies retain the terrible Soviet era KGB's name. It is the only country in Europe to maintain death.
Over the years, when Lukashenko and Kremlin bargain, he will regularly appease the West by alleviating the suppression. This flirting ended after the 2020 election released the violent suppression of the objection.
The election of his sixth term was widely seen at home and abroad, which caused several months of large -scale protests, which is the biggest protest ever in Belarus.
The authorities made a thorough suppression response, of which more than 65,000 were arrested, thousands of police beaten, hundreds of independent media and non -governmental organizations were closed and banned, resulting in western sanctions.
The leading opposition numbers have been imprisoned and either escape from the country. Human rights activists say Belarus has about 1,300 political prisoners, including the Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiaatski, the founder of Viasna, the highest organization of the country.
Although Lukashenko's current term did not expire until the summer, the election that officials said can make him "exercise power in the initial stage of strategic planning."
He said: "Valery Karbalevich, a Belarusian political analyst, gave different reasons, and he said:" No large -scale protests will occur in January in January. "
In other maneuver, Lukashenko pardoned 250 people described as political prisoners by rights activists.
However, the pardon occurred because the suppression that was designed to increase the suppression of any remaining objections was exacerbated. Hundreds of people were arrested in raids against relatives and friends of political prisoners. Other arrests include online chats organized by residents of apartment buildings in various cities.
Unlike the 2020 election, Lukashenko is facing symbolic challengers, while other opposition candidates are rejected by the Central Election Committee. The election began in early Tuesday and ended on Sunday.
Viasna said Pavel Sapelka on behalf of Pavel Sapelka: "The politicians who once dared to challenge Lukashenko are now rotten in prison for more than a year under the conditions of torture, and some of them have poor health."
The opposition leader challenged Lukashenko in the 2020 election, and later challenged Lukashenko. He was forced to escape from the country. He said that the latest voting was a farce and urged Belarusians to Vote for each candidate. Her husband, radioist, Siaarhei Tsikhanouski tried to run four years ago, but was sentenced to imprisonment and was imprisoned.
In December 2024, Lukashenko and PUTIN signed a treaty to provide a guarantee to Berarus, including the may use Russian nuclear weapons.
The agreement was after Moscow's amendment of its nuclear doctrine. The doctrine put Belarus under the nuclear umbrella of Russia for the first time because of the tension with the West in the Ukrainian war.
Lukashenko said Belarus is hosting dozens of Russian tactical nuclear weapons. Their deployment has expanded Russia's ability to Europe and Ukraine and NATO allies.
He also said that Belarus will be preparing to host the Osknick treble missile in Russia, which was first used in Ukraine in November. Putin said that these missiles can be deployed to Belarus in the second half of 2025, retained under the control of Moscow, and Minsk will choose the goal.