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Questions tagged [belarus]

For questions about the government and politics of Belarus, a landlocked country in Eastern Europe - officially the Republic of Belarus and formerly known by its Russian name Byelorussia or Belorussia.

Belarus is a country in eastern . It was formerly a part of the . It maintains very close ties to the .

Officially it is a democratic . Alexander Lukashenko has been the president of Belarus since 1994.

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Why is Protasevich so important for Lukashenko that he risked international sanctions in order to arrest him?

I understand the willingness to arrest him, but is he really so important, that it was worth forcing foreign aircraft with uninvolved passengers to land, under the escort of the military aircraft? Lukashenko must know for sure that hijacking a plane…
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Why does Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya think Belarus deploying troops to Syria is contrary to national interests?

Belarus to send 200 troops to Syria alongside Russians Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the main opposition challenger to Lukashenko who was forced to leave the country after Lukashenko's re-election to a sixth term in an August 2020 vote that the…
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