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a former Soviet collective farm manager who has kept Belarus under strict control since 1994. He faces discontent with his control of the economy, the COVID-19 pandemic and human rights violations.

Belarus’s authoritarian leader accuses NATO of presenting competitive plans as it tries to consolidate its 26-year government amid weeks of protests against his re-election in a vote that the opposition says rigged.

Tens of thousands of people flooded the center of the Belarusian capital, Minsk, in a protest over a brutal police crackdown this week against nonviolent demonstrators following a disputed election.

MINSK, Belarus (AP) – The bespoeised Belarusian president attempted a force roll on Sunday, holding a rally with tens of thousands of supporters and rejecting any option to repeat the vote that earned him a sixth term. But warring parties retaliated with a much larger demonstration that attracted up to 200,000 others. Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled the former Soviet republic of another nine and a half million people since 1ninenine4, criticized the West and told his crowd that the country would “perish as a state” if the elections resumed. About 50,000 more people heard Lukashenko in a square near the main government building in the capital of Minsk. But as he spoke, crowds of supporters flocked to their own rally about 2.5 kilometers (1.5 miles). It was the eighth consecutive day of anti-government protests. For 26 years in power, Lukashenko cracked down on opposition figures and independent media. But this year, protesters are fed up with the decline in the popular population in the country, and Lukashenko’s rejection of the coronavirus pandemic represented the biggest challenge to his reign. The 65-year-old president said Sunday that Western powers were gathering military forces in countries along Belarus’s western borders and denounced the advice of some Western countries for Belarus to repeat the 9th of August presidential vote, which opposition supporters say has given Lukashenko only one victory. . great fraud. The official effects mean he got 80% of the vote. “If we stick to his example (and relaunch the election), we will perish as a state,” Lukashenko said, a day after he pointed out that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin had agreed that Russia would send unspecified security aid to the former Soviet Union. republic if Lukashenko asked for it. NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu rejected President … ‘

EU prepares to talk about conceivable sanctions opposing Minsk, as Russia says protests are a ‘clear attempt at open air interference’

In several districts of Minsk, many women have formed long “lines of solidarity”. Many of them bore flowers and portraits of those who were arrested demonstrations.

Crowds of demonstrators in Belarus took to the streets and thousands of employees gathered outdoors in commercial factories on Thursday to denounce the police crackdown on protests following a disputed election that prolonged the 26-year government of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko.

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