Brussels 07.08.2021 This week in Minsk political prisoners Marya Kaliesnikava and Maksim Znak were sentenced to 11 and 10 years in prison respectively. In August 2020, Marya Kaliesnikava, together with Ms Tsikhanouskaya and Ms Tsepkalo, became a symbol of the movement for democratic Belarus. Belarus: Trials of political prisoners Marya Kaliesnikava & Maksim Znak on…
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Lukashenko in whirlwind of political crisis
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko is Europe’s longest-serving ruler and the 65-year-old former Soviet collective farm chairman now wants a sixth term as president. But in the run-up to the 9 August presidential election he has faced the biggest opposition protests for a decade. “An authoritarian style of rule is characteristic of me, and I have…
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