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Lukashenko has learned to ignore the EU's empty threats

21 August 2020

7:10 PM

21 August 2020

7:10 PM

On Belarus, the EU has been eager to talk the talk. But it has been slower to walk the walk. Belarus’s sham election – in which the country’s authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko won 80 per cent of the vote – was condemned by EU leaders as ‘neither free nor fair’.

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