With many of his political opponents either jailed or exiled abroad, Alexander Lukashenko, dubbed “Europe’s last dictator,” ...

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 ...

and pushed for abandoning the country’s red-and-white national flag in favor of one similar to what it used as a Soviet republic. Belarus' top security agency kept its fearsome Soviet-era name ...