It was a good day for Europe’s last dictator, not so much for democracy. Belarus election ends in protests, police crackdown Following a night of violence and mass arrests in Minsk, Belarus, the state-dominated media on Monday declared that Alexander Lukashenko, the Belarussian leader who’s often described as “Europe’s last dictator,” has been reelected to [...]
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