(AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov) Belarusian presidential candidate, first secretary of the Belarusian Communist ... national flag ...

At dusk on Christmas day, 1991, the iconic hammer-and-sickle flag of the erstwhile Soviet ... independent countries - Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan ...

Within a year of assuming office, Lukashenko held a referendum that changed Belarus’s white-and-red flag to one closely ... and an alternative model to post-communist transition in other ...

which is now used in Belarus along with the white-red-white flag. The Polish eagle wears a crown: it symbolises the sovereignty and unity of the state. After Poland regained independence in 1918, the ...

Moreover, he advocated at the time a nuclear alliance formed of Greece, Belarus, Serbia and Russia ... fans of the Greek team tried to burn the American flag before the start of the game and ...

Many also vowed to boycott the pub and encourage others to follow suite, prompting Cobblers Falcon to claim on social media the flags were planted on the pub without management's knowledge.

The smiling face of President Alexander Lukashenko gazed out from campaign posters across Belarus on Sunday as ... to serve as his vanguard,” said Communist Party candidate Sergei Syrankov ...

Sergei Syrankov is the leader of the Communist Party of Belarus. In the town of Vitebsk I sit in on one of his campaign events. In a large hall Mr Syrankov addresses a small audience, flanked by ...

The E.U. has called Sunday’s election a sham. Lukashenko, running virtually unopposed, said he was “too busy” to even campaign.