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Murder trial seen as test of Kazakh leader's pledge on women's rights: The trial of a former government minister charged with beating his wife to death has ...
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Murder trial seen as test of Kazakh leader's pledge on women's rights
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Kazakh president welcomes Armenia's, Azerbaijan's desire to conclude a peace treaty
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Kazakh president welcomes Armenia's, Azerbaijan's desire to conclude a ...
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In China, Kazakh President highlights Asia’s leading economic role: The President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev highlighted Asia’s leading role in new ...
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In China, Kazakh President highlights Asia’s leading economic role
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Kazakhstan aims for tricky economic reboot after cabinet shuffle: ALMATY, Kazakhstan -- Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev hopes to close the book on a ...
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Kazakhstan aims for tricky economic reboot after cabinet shuffle
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The Old Politics of New Kazakhstan: Despite two era-defining moments occurring in the five years since Nazarbayev’s resignation, continuity is the main feature ...
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The Old Politics of New Kazakhstan
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The Old Politics of New Kazakhstan: Despite two era-defining moments occurring in the five years since Nazarbayev’s resignation, continuity is the main feature ...
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The Old Politics of New Kazakhstan
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Kazakh president names chief of staff Bektenov new PM: Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev named his chief of staff, Olzhas Bektenov, prime minister on ...
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Kazakh president names chief of staff Bektenov new PM
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NGO: Belarusian man accused of insulting Lukashenko dies in jail awaiting trial: According to the Viasna human rights group, Aliaksandr Kulinich is the sixth ...
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NGO: Belarusian man accused of insulting Lukashenko dies in jail awaiting ...
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Putin's Key Ally Reveals Why He Hasn't Launched Ukraine Invasion: Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said "there is no such need" to join the war in Ukraine.
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Putin's Key Ally Reveals Why He Hasn't Launched Ukraine Invasion
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Lukashenko tightens grip on power as regime prepares for new elections: Around a month before Russia held its presidential elections that were neither free nor ...
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Lukashenko tightens grip on power as regime prepares for new elections
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Belarus Weekly: Lukashenko torpedoes Putin's attempts to blame Moscow shooting on Ukraine
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Belarus Weekly: Lukashenko torpedoes Putin's attempts to blame Moscow ...
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Deployment in Lithuania: A German brigade against Russia: The Bundeswehr begins its deployment on NATO's eastern flank. In Lithuania people are looking forward ...
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Deployment in Lithuania: A German brigade against Russia
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Opinion: Why is Ukraine rejecting the Belarusian opposition?: Immediately after World War II, the Paris-exiled Polish intellectual  Jerzy Giedroyc (of Lithuanian ...
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Opinion: Why is Ukraine rejecting the Belarusian opposition?
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Belarusian opposition in exile seeks recognition for its own passports: An estimated 200,000 to 300,000 Belarusians have left the country in the more than 3½ ...
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Belarusian opposition in exile seeks recognition for its own passports
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Lukashenko: Belarus prepares for war: Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko declared during a working trip to Grodno that Belarus is actively preparing for ...
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Lukashenko: Belarus prepares for war
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Lukashenko contradicts Kremlin: assassins wanted to flee to Belarus first: Following the terrorist attack in Moscow that left 139 dead, Russia continues to see a ...
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Lukashenko contradicts Kremlin: assassins wanted to flee to Belarus first
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Russian FSB says US, UK and Ukraine behind Moscow attack: The director of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), Alexander Bortnikov, said on Tuesday that the ...
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Russian FSB says US, UK and Ukraine behind Moscow attack
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Vladimir Putin's election in Russia: What do you call the winner of a pseudo-election?
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Quick Glance: Putin revels in electoral victory amidst quiet protests
  • Putin secures fifth term easily after suppressing opposition.

  • Voters had virtually no choice in the election.

  • Critics view the results as predetermined, Putin sees them as trust.

  • Protests by the opposition, both in Russia and globally, are downplayed by Putin.
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Belarus Weekly: Lukashenko torpedoes Putin's attempts to blame Moscow shooting on Ukraine
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Belarus Weekly: Lukashenko torpedoes Putin's attempts to blame Moscow ...
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Belarus' democratic forces fail to align messaging on EU sanctions: Belarus faced the first EU sanctions almost 30 years ago, however, it seems this was not ...
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Belarus' democratic forces fail to align messaging on EU sanctions
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Elections in Belarus will take place without opposition participation: A new parliament was elected in #Belarus. According to the US, it was just a "sham ...
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Elections in Belarus will take place without opposition participation
Quick Glance: Lukashenko Plans Another Presidential Candidacy for 2025
  • Belarus' longstanding leader, Alexander Lukashenko, announced his intention to run again in the 2025 presidential elections.

  • Lukashenko emphasized to journalists at a polling station that he would not abandon his supporters.

  • The current election signifies a significant political move following the controversial 2020 presidential vote that secured Lukashenko his sixth term.

  • The European Union no longer acknowledges Lukashenko as the head of state, with Belarus having close ties to Russia.
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Belarus' Lukashenko says he'll run for president in 2025: Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said he would run for president again in 2025 ...
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Belarus' Lukashenko says he'll run for president in 2025
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Belarus Weekly: Lukashenko declares intention to run for 7th term in 2025: Tightly controlled parliamentary and local elections in Belarus, condemned ...
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Belarus Weekly: Lukashenko declares intention to run for 7th term in 2025
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"Elections in Belarus are nothing more than a farce": A new parliament is being elected in Belarus today - and the election is likely to be neither free nor ...
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Quick Glance: Elections in Belarus: A Farce
  • Today, a new parliament is being elected in Belarus, but the conditions are repressive.

  • Opposition members have either gone into exile or are imprisoned.

  • There are no opposition candidates, only four parties aligned with Lukashenko.

  • The human rights situation has worsened, with escalating repression and political prisoners.
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Belarusian exiles plot coup against Lukashenko: The group’s leader said defeating Russia in Ukraine is essential to weaken Minsk’s regime.
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Belarusian exiles plot coup against Lukashenko
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Belarus leader Lukashenko calls for armed street patrols, warns of 'extremist' crime
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Belarus leader Lukashenko calls for armed street patrols, warns of ...
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Known health problems: Belarusian opposition activist dies in custody: Igar Lednik is sentenced to three years in prison for "defaming" Belarusian ruler ...
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Known health problems: Belarusian opposition activist dies in custody
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Lukashenko: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova, Georgia, & Serbia will be drawn into the alliance
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Lukashenko: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova, Georgia, & Serbia will be ...
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Belarus goes to the polls. Don’t hold your breath.: If you want excitement, go to “the circus, the theater, concert venues,” says head of the country’s electoral ...
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Belarus goes to the polls. Don’t hold your breath.
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Lukashenko Says ‘Saboteurs’ Captured on Belarusian Border With Ukraine: An unspecified number of Ukrainian and Belarusian “saboteurs” have been captured near the ...
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Lukashenko Says ‘Saboteurs’ Captured on Belarusian Border With Ukraine
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Julija Navalnaya and Svetlana Tichanowskaja: politicians against their will: Julia Navalnaya and Svetlana Tikhanovskaya share the same fate: they never wanted to ...
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Julija Navalnaya and Svetlana Tichanowskaja: politicians against their ...
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Lukashenko threatens to attack Nato countries Lithuania and Poland: The ruler in Minsk is practising an attack on the West. Lithuania reacts with an urgent ...
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Lukashenko threatens to attack Nato countries Lithuania and Poland
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Death toll in Moscow concert hall attack rises to 140 after another victim dies in hospital
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Death toll in Moscow concert hall attack rises to 140 after another victim ...
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Belarusian opposition working to create ‘alternative’ passport, safeguard exiles from Lukashenko regime
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Belarusian opposition working to create ‘alternative’ passport ...
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Belarusians celebrated Freedom Day in Vilnius, hoping to one day do it in Minsk: Belarusians celebrated Freedom Day in Vilnius on Monday, saying they hope they ...
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Belarusians celebrated Freedom Day in Vilnius, hoping to one day do it in ...
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Political activist and journalist dies in Belarus prison: A Belarusian political activist jailed for “defamation” against President Alexander Lukashenko has died ...
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Political activist and journalist dies in Belarus prison
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New EU sanctions: Lukashenko also stealing Ukraine's children: The EU is putting Belarusian child-abductors on its Russia blacklist, boosting calls for ICC ...
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New EU sanctions: Lukashenko also stealing Ukraine's children
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New decree in Belarus: Lukashenko allows shooting: Belarusian soldiers have been using weapons against protests for years. Now they are officially allowed to do ...
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New decree in Belarus: Lukashenko allows shooting
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Belarusian Exiles Announce Coup Plot Against Putin Ally Alexander Lukashenko: The head of a Belarusian resistance group said 200,000 people have already ...
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Belarusian Exiles Announce Coup Plot Against Putin Ally Alexander ...
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Interpol abused? Lukashenko critic imprisoned in Serbia fears extradition to Belarus - Tageblatt.lu
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Interpol abused? Lukashenko critic imprisoned in Serbia fears extradition ...
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Four new astronauts head to the International Space Station for six month stay: Rolling coverage of the international stories of interest to our readers
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Four new astronauts head to the International Space Station for six month ...
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Penal camp: forced labor with eco-label: What prisoners produce in Belarus is often exported. Furniture from the warehouses has even received FSC certification ...
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Penal camp: forced labor with eco-label
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Propaganda spread: Cantonal councilor demands resignation: The Zug SVP cantonal councilor Patrik Kretz is said to have spread propaganda for the Belarusian ...
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Propaganda spread: Cantonal councilor demands resignation
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Director on Belarus: "The regime can't break them": Thousands of people, including many women, have been imprisoned in Belarus, and not just since 2020 ...
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Director on Belarus:
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Repressed By Lukashenko, the Belarusian Language Rallies His Opponents: A long-neglected language flowers in exile, novels and cyberspace, as a badge of ...
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Repressed By Lukashenko, the Belarusian Language Rallies His Opponents
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Russia is also looking for FDP politicians - Lindner comments: Two years after the invasion of Ukraine, Russia has put Western politicians on its national wanted ...
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Russia is also looking for FDP politicians - Lindner comments
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Belarus detains Ukrainian sabotage group at border, says President Lukashenko: Belarusian president claims group was engaged in transporting explosives from ...
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Belarus detains Ukrainian sabotage group at border, says President ...
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Putin's Close Ally Claims Russia 'Suffers More Than Anyone Else': Russia has been internationally isolated ever since Russia chose to invade Ukraine.
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Putin's Close Ally Claims Russia 'Suffers More Than Anyone Else'
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Film: Green Border: 2021. Attracted by the promises of the Belarusian dictator Lukashenko, Bashir and Amina and their Syrian family, like many other refugees ...
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Film: Green Border
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Kazakhstan’s President to Name Chief of Staff as Prime Minister: Kazakhstan’s president is poised to name his chief of staff to the post of prime minister ...
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Kazakhstan’s President to Name Chief of Staff as Prime Minister
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How Putin’s main ally Belarus makes tens of millions smuggling tobacco into UK: Democracy activists warn the regime of Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko is ...
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How Putin’s main ally Belarus makes tens of millions smuggling tobacco ...
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Russia marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the siege of Leningrad: Russian President Vladimir Putin, a native of Leningrad, led the commemorations marking ...
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Russia marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the siege of Leningrad