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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko waves to his supporters at the forum of Union of Women in Minsk, Belarus September 17, 2020. Photo: Reuters
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Lukashenko announces security shake-up to tighten grip on Belarus

United Nations investigators have reported many cases of severe beatings and torture - an accusation denied by Karayev, the outgoing interior minister, who has described the Belarusian police as...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko chairs a meeting with high-ranking officials in Minsk, Belarus October 21, 2020. Nikolai Petrov/BelTA/Handout via REUTERS
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Belarus president Lukashenko speaks by phone to Pompeo: media

FILE PHOTO: Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet at the Sirius Educational Center in the Black sea resort of Sochi, Russia February 15, 2019. Sergei Chirikov/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
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Putin, Lukashenko confident Belarus problems will soon be resolved: Kremlin

FILE PHOTO: Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya talks during a meeting with students at University of Warsaw, in Warsaw, Poland, September 9, 2020. Agencja Gazeta/Maciek Jazwiecki/via REUTERS
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Belarus warns EU against inviting Lukashenko's rival to meeting

FILE PHOTO: Russian President Vladimir Putin greets Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko before the Victory Day Parade in Moscow, Russia, June 24, 2020. Sputnik/Alexei Nikolskyi/Kremlin via REUTERS
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Belarusian leader says he asked Putin for armaments at meeting - Belta

FILE PHOTO: Russian President Vladimir Putin greets Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko before the Victory Day Parade in Moscow, Russia, June 24, 2020. Sputnik/Alexei Nikolskyi/Kremlin via REUTERS
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Russia has agreed to lend Belarus $1.5 billion, Putin says at talks with Lukashenko

Belarusian leader Lukashenko lands in Sochi for talks with Putin
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Belarusian leader Lukashenko lands in Sochi for talks with Putin

FILE PHOTO: Russian President Vladimir Putin greets Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko before the Victory Day Parade in Moscow, Russia, June 24, 2020. Sputnik/Alexei Nikolskyi/Kremlin via REUTERS
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Putin and Belarus's Lukashenko to meet on Monday, Kremlin says

FILE PHOTO: Law enforcement officers detaining a journalist who was on assignment are photographed by a Reuters photographer shortly before his detention, in central Minsk, Belarus August 27, 2020. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko
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Belarus revokes accreditations of journalists covering protests for foreign media

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko visits a military firing range near Grodno, Belarus August 22, 2020. Andrei Stasevich/BelTA/Handout via REUTERS
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Lukashenko says he will close Belarus factories that are seeing protests - RIA

Belarusian opposition politician Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya addresses the nation in Vilnius, Lithuania, in this still image taken from handout video released August 21, 2020. Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya Headquarters/Handout via REUTERS
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Belarus Lukashenko must leave sooner or later, opposition leader Tsikhanouskaya says

FILE PHOTO: Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet at the Sirius Educational Center in the Black sea resort of Sochi, Russia February 15, 2019. Sergei Chirikov/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
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Putin bets on Lukashenko keeping power in Belarus for now - sources

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko gestures as he delivers a speech during a rally of his supporters near the Government House in Independence Square in Minsk, Belarus August 16, 2020. REUTERS/Stringer
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'I'm not a saint': Lukashenko offers to hand over power after referendum