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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