LONDON (Reuters) – Investors face a classic ‘dictatorial dilemma’ in Belarus – hold on to securities that take advantage of the status quo in a brutal regime, or sell them and close their bonds – but whichever way they go, for largely dependent on Vladimir Putin’s Russia. PHOTO PHOTO: Russian …
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The European Union is preparing sanctions against officials in Belarus who are responsible for the deadly pressure on anti-Protestant elections, said Foreign Minister Josep Borrell. The green light was given by the 27 EU foreign ministers during a video conference in Brussels on Friday, while protests in Belarus over the …
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MINSK (Reuters) – Belarussian leader Alexander Lukashenko on Friday told people to stay home so as not to be “cannon fodder” for what he said were revolutionaries with foreign support after large crowds took to the streets on the seventh consecutive day to demand that he departed. Lukashenko, whose Sunday …
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MINSK (Reuters) – Belarussian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya has called for more protests and an election campaign, raising pressure on authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko as he faces the biggest challenge in his 26 years. In a video posted on YouTube of self-imposed exile in Lithuania, Tsikhanouskaya asked supporters to request …
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This first chain of women appeared on Wednesday: a few hundred brave souls, clad in white and adorned with air flowers, in a quiet powerful response to the horrific violence caused by thousands of Belarusians in previous days. Towards the following afternoon, columns of flower-waving women sat everywhere, parading along …
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