Minsk, Jan 26, 2025 (AFP) - Tractors, forests, nuclear weapons: Five things about Belarus

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2025-01-26
Belarus is holding a presidential election on Sunday that will certainly secure another five-year mandate for Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power for over three decades and crushed all opposition. Here are five things to know about the authoritarian former Soviet republic, a Kremlin ally with a population of nine million people. Lukashenko's last re-election in August 2020 with an official tally of more than 80 percent support was follo......
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