File photo: Russia The logo of the Nord Flow 2 gas pipeline project is seen on the Chilebinsk Pipe Rolling Plant on February 26, 2020 at the Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant in Chelyabinsk. BERLIN (Reuters) – A European response involving the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline against Russia is needed …
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Thousands of people gather for a protest in Independence Square. Demonstrators take to the streets in the Belarusian capital and other cities and remain pressured to oust President Lukashenko. Ulf Mauder | picture alliance via Getty Images Tens of thousands of protesters marched in Belarus’ capital Minsk over the weekend, …
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This week, Belarus’s President Alexander Lukashenko visited one of the nation’s major state factories in the capital, Minsk, of purpose to show that he still had support despite national calls for his dismissal. He had done well to remember Nicolae Ceausescu. The decision of Romania’s last communist leader to counter …
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Read More »Belarus launches criminal lawsuit against new opposition party
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