298K views · 2K reactions | Belarus has been gripped by mass protests over the disputed re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko. But who is opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya and why have people chosen now to protest against a president who's been in power for 26 years? https://bbc.in/3j8hUxv | BBC News | Facebook

More than 2,000 people have been detained in Belarus following protests against the contested re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko | Read more: https://bit.ly/2CggfGk | RTÉ News

After the Belarusian president, Alexander Lukashenko, ordered a Ryanair flight to divert to Minsk and arrest a wanted dissident who was on board, opposition activists inside the country were shocked and scared. Now, they’re reflecting on whether a year of protests has changed anything. https://bbc.in/2SLmLwH | BBC News

🇷🇺🇧🇾 Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko play ice hockey after holding diplomatic talks. Both presidents were on the same team, with Putin taking to the ice as number 11 and Lukashenko as number 1. The son of the Belarusian president Nikolai Lukashenko also joined in. The match took place on the ice arena of the Manezh children's and youth sports school in Strelna, near St. Petersburg. Some famous Russian hockey players including Vyacheslav Fe

185K views · 1.3K reactions |  Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko jokes that he's still waiting for Vladimir Putin to appoint him as a colonel after he served in the Soviet army. “Putin is a colonel, he promised to appoint me as colonel - he still hasn’t done it,” Lukashenko said in an interview. | Euronews English | Facebook

231K views · 17K reactions | Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has laid a wreath to a World War Two monument in Volgograd. Lukashenko, who is expected to attend Victory Day celebrations in Moscow on May 9, made a visit to Russia's Volgograd to take part in a forum ahead of the event. #putin #lukashenko #russia #belarus #volgograd | CGTNEurope | Facebook