Belarus election: how ‘Europe’s last dictator’ held onto power as his opponents were jailed or exiled
The acclamation of Alexander Lukashenko as Belarus president for a seventh straight term was confirmed on January 26. The ...
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Belarus election is poised to extend the 30-year rule of ‘Europe’s last dictator’
(Maxim Guchek/BelTA Pool Photo via AP, File) A woman waves an old Belarusian national flag from a roof as opposition supporters march to Independence Square in Minsk, Belarus, on Aug. 23, 2020. (AP ...
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Belarus Initiative
The Belarus Initiative is run in partnership with the Center for New Ideas and led by Ryhor Astapenia. Image — Belarusians hold a giant former white-red-white flag of Belarus used in opposition to the ...
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At least 100,000 Belarus protesters flood streets
As public anger continued to build against Lukashenko, who has ruled the former Soviet nation for 26 years, Moscow offered him support by saying it would send paratroopers to Belarus for "Slavic ...
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Belarus election is poised to extend the 30-year rule of ‘Europe’s last dictator’
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 ...