Belarus election: how ‘Europe’s last dictator’ held onto power as his opponents were jailed or exiled
The acclamation of Alexander Lukashenko as Belarus president for a seventh straight term was confirmed on January 26. The ...
The World on MSN11d
Election in Belarus called a ‘sham’ by opposition and European leaders
In Belarus, strongman leader Alexander Lukashenko has been in power for more than 30 years. Over the weekend, Lukashenko ...
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Belarus opposition and Western leaders reject election result that extends strongman’s rule
Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko has extended his more than three decades in power in an orchestrated weekend election that the opposition and the European Union rejected as a ...
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Belarus’ leader elected again
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko casts his ballot at a polling site during voting in presidential elections on Sunday in Minsk, Belarus ... the strongman leader won by a landslide ...
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Belarus' Lukashenko is a shoo-in for his seventh election as president
In almost all of the 15 newly minted republics, the leadership was taken ... staying within the 6% cap set by the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus (NBRB). And exports to Russia are booming ...
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Alexander Lukashenko wins seventh straight term in ‘sham’ Belarus election
The war in Ukraine has bound Lukashenko more tightly than ever to Putin, and Russian tactical nuclear weapons are now deployed in Belarus. Chinese leader Xi Jinping also congratulated Lukashenko ...
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Belarus opposition and Western leaders reject election result that extends strongman's rule
Opposition leader-in-exile Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, who fled Belarus under government pressure after challenging Lukashenko in 2020, had denounced the election in advance and had urged voters to ...