MINSK / BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Wednesday ordered his police to stage protests in the capital, Minsk, signaling an escalation after a week and a half of mass demonstrations against his government. Lukashenko’s mandate came when European Union leaders held an emergency summit on the political …
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MINSK (Reuters) – Belarus’s presidential challenger Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya on Wednesday accused European Union leaders of not recognizing what she called fraudulent election results, saying longtime leader Alexander Lukashenko had lost all legitimacy. Belarussian opposition politician Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya speaks in a video message at an unknown location in Lithuania, in this …
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