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F6, can't argue with Balarus' Christian Lukashenko either. At least not effectively.

Yours? LMAO!

BELARUS: Crackdown on Dissent Feared Ahead of Elections

By Pavol Stracansky
WARSAW, Mar 22 2010 (IPS) .. to end ..

“Lukashenko is more interested in power in his own state than improving relations with the EU. It is a matter of
priorities for him. He is the king in his own country and wants to stay that way and will do what he has to to stop
any opposition before the elections. There will be restrictions on NGOs, media and all parts of civil society.

“The EU has nothing it can lever against him and he knows this. They are pretty powerless.”
http://www.ipsnews.net/2010/03/belarus-crackdown-on-dissent-feared-ahead-of-elections/

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Russia's Medvedev attacks Belarus President Lukashenko

4 October 2010


President Lukashenko has enjoyed
Moscow's support for 16 years

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has launched a strong attack on Belarus
President Alexander Lukashenko, who faces re-election in December.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-11469027

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.. most open election under Lukashenko is window dressing, he needs European money .. opposition leaders jailed ..

Protesters try to storm government HQ in Belarus
20 December 2010

[...]

Incumbent Alexander Lukashenko has been declared the winner, but the opposition claims the result is rigged.

Official results announced early on Monday gave President Lukashenko 79.7% of the vote. This will be the authoritarian leader's fourth term in office.

During his presidency, the former Soviet republic has never held a poll seen as fair by international monitors.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-12029814

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Lukashenko: if we lose Christian values – we lose everything

Source: Interfax-Religion
admin | 05 June 2014

Minsk, June 3, Interfax - Byelorussian President Alexander Lukashenko says it is inadmissible to rule Christian values out of people's lives.



* Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk speaks at the opening of the 4th European Orthodox-Catholic forum in Minsk
http://www.pravmir.com/metropolitan-hilarion-volokolamsk-speaks-opening-4th-european-orthodox-catholic-forum-minsk/

“Today we should be united as never before as there is a serious strike made against the most important thing that have always united us and brought us up. It is a strike against
the foundation, on which we based our lives, against Christian values,” the President said at a meeting with participants in the European Orthodox-Catholic Forum.

“We should stand for Christian values, whatever it costs. If we lose them, we lose everything,” the head of the state said.

He assures that Byelorussians have always been and will be one of the basic cores in the foundation of Christianity as these values are in the foundation of country’s development.
http://www.pravmir.com/lukashenko-lose-christian-values-lose-everything/

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Belarus election: Alexander Lukashenko wins fifth term with election landslide

The president, who has ruled for 20 years, retained power after winning 83.5% of the vote and could now see EU sanctions lifted


President Alexander Lukashenko at a polling station on Sunday, where he voted
along with his 11-year-old son, Nikolai. Photograph: Sergei Grits/AP

Shaun Walker in Moscow
Monday 12 October 2015 09.26 EDT

The Belarusian leader, Alexander Lukashenko, has won a predicted landslide victory in presidential elections, giving the 61-year-old a fifth term in power, amid signs the EU may be willing to relax sanctions against him.

Lukashenko, once dubbed “Europe’s last dictator” by the Bush administration, has been in office since 1994 and shows little sign of releasing his grip on
power in the former Soviet republic. He won 83.5% of the vote, higher than ever before, while his nearest rival, Tatiana Korotkevich, managed just 4.4%.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/11/alexander-lukashenko-expected-to-remain-as-belarusian-president

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The Guardian view on Europe and Belarus: engage without illusion

Editorial

The re-election of Alexander Lukashenko was a sham. Any dialogue with him must come with clear conditions attached


Belarus’s President Alexander Lukashenko (centre) and his son Nikolai at an independence day parade in Minsk on 3 July 2013. ‘The
EU should not hand Mr Lukashenko the ultimate prize of complete relegitimisation.’ Photograph: Nikolai Petrov/AFP/Getty Images

Tuesday 13 October 2015 14.46 EDT
Last modified on Tuesday 13 October 2015 17.01 EDT

Svetlana Alexievich, who won this year’s Nobel literature prize .. http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/08/svetlana-alexievich-wins-2015-nobel-prize-in-literature , knows a thing or two about the Soviet and the post-Soviet mind. In her books, she has beautifully explored the words, anxieties, hopes and life experience of those who lived under the communist dictatorship and then saw the end of the USSR. She also stands out as the most powerful voice today relaying the democratic aspirations of Belarus .. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/13/belarus-poll-eu-lifts-sanctions-on-lukashenko-europes-last-dictator , the country where she grew up – a society that remains in the grip of Europe’s last autocrat, Alexander Lukashenko. .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=117699708