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Things are heating up:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8633931/Hundreds-demonstrators-pour-streets-Belarus.html
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Vladimir Putin threatens to intervene in Belarus to support 'Europe's last dictator' Viktor Lukashenko as 200,000 people pour onto the streets protesting his 'rigged' reelection
- Peoplecalledpoured onto streets of Belarus calling for President's resignation
- President Viktor Lukashenko launched a brutal crackdown after claiming victory
- Now Kremlin is looking at using a joint defence treaty with Belarus to intervene
Russia could intervene in Belarus to back up the country's beleaguered President as hundreds of thousands of people poured onto the streets to demand his resignation.
President Viktor Lukashenko, often dubbed Europe's last dictator, has launched a brutal crackdown after claiming victory in an election that was widely seen as fixed.
Now the Kremlin is looking at using a joint defence treaty with Belarus to intervene to put down the protests.
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His 26-year-long rule is under serious threat by the ongoing unrest and the protests have been described as the largest in the country's post-Soviet independence.
Russia is prepared to assist and 'solve the problems that have arisen' from 'external pressure', comments that show the Kremlin is backing Lukashenko and his claims that the protests are part of a Western plot to oust him.
He has claimed that Poland, Latvia and Lithuania are involved in a 'build up of military might' on the country's borders and in response his regime has announced military exercises close to the Lithuanian frontier.
Yesterday he said: 'NATO troops are at our gates. Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and our native Ukraine are ordering us to hold new elections.
Mr Lukashenko added that Belarus would 'die as a state' if new polls were held. ...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8633931/Hundreds-demonstrators-pour-streets-Belarus.html
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