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May 25, 2021 · May 25th 2021. THE DECISION by Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus, to force a passenger flight from Greece to Lithuania to land in Minsk, his country’s capital, in order to arrest a...
After Alexander Lukashenko became Belarusian leader in 1994, the relationship between Minsk and the EU deteriorated and has remained cold and distanced. The EU has condemned the government of Belarus several times for authoritarian and anti-democratic practices, and has imposed sanctions on Belarus.
Dec 6, 2021 · The Accidental Revolutionary Leading Belarus’s Uprising | The New Yorker. A Reporter at Large. The Accidental Revolutionary Leading Belarus’s Uprising. How Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya came to...
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Sep 12, 2014 · Analysis: Minsk severely restricts freedoms but the regime is far from totalitarian. Now that the president is playing peacemaker in the Ukraine conflict, it’s time for the west to review the way...
Retrieved 16 February 2013. Belarus, [b] officially the Republic of Belarus, [c] is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Covering an area of 207,600 square kilometres (80,200 sq mi) and with a population of ...
Oct 5, 2017 · Siarhei Hudzilin for The New York Times. By Ivan Nechepurenko. Oct. 5, 2017. MINSK, Belarus — On Friday nights, Zybitskaya street — or simply Zyba, as locals call it — turns into a vast ...
Jul 3, 2014 · The Bush administration famously dubbed Alexander Lukashenko "Europe's last dictator" in 2005. Political freedoms in Belarus are severely restricted, especially in comparison with other European ...
