Cities erupted Sunday night in cities in Belarus when rebel police used rubber bullets, flash grenades, tear gas and water cannon to protest the results of the contested presidential election. Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled for 26 years, claimed he had won a landslide victory in an election march over …
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Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko has been blamed for an overwhelming victory in a presidential election, an official poll said, after a political newcomer posed a historic challenge to the strongman leader. The poll for state television on Sunday gave Lukashenko 79.7 percent of the vote, with his main challenger Svetlana …
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MINSK (Reuters) – Belarus has begun voting in a presidential election on Sunday against Alexander Lukashenko, a former teacher who emerged from obscurity to face the biggest challenge in years against the man who was once “the last dictator of Europe “was named by Washington. A woman wearing a protective …
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Belarusian authorities said they had detained dozens of Russian private military contractors days before Belarus’s presidential vote, signaling an escalation of tensions between the two neighbors. Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, 65, who is seeking a sixth term in the Aug. 9 vote, has repeatedly accused Russia of trying to …
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Belarus has arrested dozens of Russian mercenaries after receiving information that more than 200 fighters had entered the country to destabilize it before a presidential election, according to Belarusian state media. The state-controlled Belta news agency said on Wednesday that the mercenaries worked for Wagner, Russia’s best-known private military contractor. …
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