Belarusians vote in election to extend Lukashenko's 30-year rule
MINSK - Belarusians voted on Sunday in an election set to hand President Alexander Lukashenko a seventh term, prolonging his three-decade authoritarian rule.
Lukashenko - a 70-year-old former collective farm boss - has been in power in reclusive, Moscow-allied Belarus since 1994.
Speaking after casting his vote in the capital Minsk, the self-avowed 'dictator' dismissed critics of his rule and said he could