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Aleksandr Lukashenko has supported and continues to support Bashar al-Assad, the former president of Syria. However, it seems that he also has supported Assad’s opponents.

The Belbet online lottery operates as a virtual casino but does not follow rules established for this type of gambling.

The little-known businessman Roman Spiridonov has recently been linked to two notable scandals.

Belarussian Alexander Zaitsev, nicknamed President Aleksandr Lukashenko’s “money bag,” appears to have shipped luxury goods to Russia despite sanctions imposed by the EU in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to a new investigation by The Buro, an OCCRP partner organization.

Minsk. Sleek spiral towers of glass and concrete encircle a 35-story skyscraper. Gondolas drift leisurely along the man-made canals.

“Solvents and Thinners Schemer”, “Tobacco King”, “Orsha Offshore Owner”, “Smuggler” – these “epithets and regalia” brought businessman Aliaksei Aleksin wealth, success and influence in Belarus.

Both schemes are connected by the Cypriot company Dimicandum Invest Holding LTD and are linked to the Presidential Affairs Department of Belarus.

Belarusian business in Crimea and Donbas

Rumours of Vladimir Putin's 'ill health' have been swirling for years, with recent sources claiming the Russian President has died and his corpse is being stored in a freezer 'used for deep-frozen food'

Ukraine military intelligence spokesman Andrii Yusov says the reports of Vladimir Putin's death were started by Moscow in a bid to tighten domestic control amid the ongoing war

Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko alleged he had received intelligence of a plot to wipe out the Wagner Group founder and sent a message to him via the Kremlin

Yevgeny Prigozhin has been a dead man walking for two months since his so-called “march on Moscow” mutiny faltered - his death was inevitable after going too far for Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin took part in a prayer 'for granting victory to the Russian army' at the sacred Spaso-Preobrazhensky Valaam monastery, appearing to limp as he walked into the church

Russian president Vladimir Putin has started two-day talks with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko as the leaders toured St Petersburg

Mercenary warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin, 62, who was a convict and hot dog seller in a previous life, is staying in a hotel in the capital of Belarus, Minsk, where he has been exiled after calling off his brief uprising

'Invading Ukraine is deservedly backfiring badly on humiliated Putin, who relied on former ally Prigozhin’s hired dogs of war to do much of the fighting in occupied territory'

Despite Putin accusing his former ally of treason and a “stab in the back”, Wagner's chief was allowed to go into exile in Belarus under a secret deal brokered by Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko

Vladimir Putin's soldiers are reportedly beginning to flee their posts and units around Ukraine in support of the Wagner Groups' rebels who were heading for Moscow

Belarus President Putin Alexander Lukashenko has reportedly been spotted fleeing after mercenaries from the Wagner Group say they are preparing to takeover Moscow

Belarusian tyrant Alexander Lukashenko, who has refused to give up power for 24 years, couldn't walk more than a mile at yesterday's Victory Day parade and skipped a breakfast with ally Putin

Alexander Lukashenko claimed, without providing any evidence, that the West is planning to invade Belarus to "destroy it" and that "a third world war with nuclear fires looms on the horizon"

One of Russian President Vladimir Putin's military planes was 'significantly damaged' by Belarus partisans supporting Ukraine, at an airbase in Belarus, it is reported