Large protests broke out in Belarus soon after the polls closed in the country’s contested presidential election. Alexander Lukashenko who has ruled for 26 years, claimed he had won a landslide victory. Crowds of thousands gathered to contest the claim but where met with rubber bullets, water canons flash grenades, teargas from security forces. The main opposition candidate, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, came under heavy pressure as eight members of her staff were arrested, and one of her top aides fled the country
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Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko or Alyaksandr Ryhoravich Lukashenka is a Belarusian politician, who has served as president of Belarus since the establishment of the office 26 years ago, on 20 July 1994.
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Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus and formerly known as Byelorussia or Belorussia, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital and most populous city is Minsk.
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