Belarus protests security for students
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The Foreign Ministry issued a formal protest on Friday over security for Belarusians participating in student programs in the United States after two students were killed.
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The Belarusian opposition on Thursday held a series of unauthorized protest actions across the country.
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The Belarus government has warned that some American officials will be barred from entering Belarus in response to the recent expansion of U.S. visa restrictions on Belarusian authorities.
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Young political activists demonstrated Monday outside the home of Poland's last communist-era leader, whom some condemned and others praised on the anniversary of his imposing martial law in 1981.
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Residents of the Russian town of Beslan,  scene of a hostage bloodbath at a school last year, took to the  streets on Friday to protest at what they consider an official  cover-up of the tragedy.
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Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko  denied on Friday there was religious intolerance in the  ex-Soviet republic, a week after Israel accused him of  anti-Semitism.
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Belarus' authoritarian president accused opposition leaders Friday of trying to foster chaos by using terror, as demonstrators protested for a fifth straight night in the capital against the referendum extending his term in office.
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Belarusians were set to cast their ballots Sunday in a constitutional referendum to decide whether their authoritarian leader can run for a third term, amid Western fears of a rigged vote and further diplomatic and economic isolation for the ex-Soviet republic.
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As Washington moved to impose economic sanctions on Belarus in the wake of a controversial referendum, both the former Soviet republic and its closest ally, Russia, are sounding a defiant note.
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MOSCOW - Tens of thousands of people answered a government call and rallied outside the Kremlin on Tuesday in a show of solidarity against terrorism, nearly a week after militants seized a school in southern Russia in a standoff that claimed more than 350 lives, many of them children.    Mourners in the grief-stricken city of Beslan lowered caskets into the damp earth in a third day of burials from the siege, which officials have blamed on Chechens and other Islamic militants...
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Police broke up an opposition rally in  Minsk on Tuesday protesting against the results of a  referendum, which allowed President Alexander Lukashenko to  extend his rule after more than a decade in power.
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MOSCOW - Tens of thousands of demonstrators waving banners and flags gathered in Red Square in a show of unity against terrorism as the country mourned the hundreds of victims of a hostage-taking at a school in southern Russia.    More than 100,000 people were expected to take part in the evening rally in the capital, organized by a pro-government trade union and advertised on state-controlled television by celebrities who appealed to citizens to turn out to say no to terror...
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Belarussians voted Sunday in a referendum on whether to change the country&#39;s constitution and permit President Alexander Lukashenko to run for a third term, a vote the opposition said was already tarnished by violations.
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This is how President Alexander Lukashenko maintains an atmosphere of fear in his forgotten country: Nikita Sasim, a 21-year-old student and pro-democracy activist here in Belarus, was walking in Minsk a week ...
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International agitators join mass protest
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Belarus believes that the United States has big problems with the observation of human rights, including the meeting of commitments to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the republic's ...
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Belarus' Foreign Ministry said the visa restrictions introduced by the European Union against a number of Belarussian officials continue the policy of pressure.