Belarus opposition leader ends protest, as US offers support
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Jailed Belarussian opposition leader Alexander Kozulin has ended a seven-week hunger strike, his family confirmed, amid protests from Russia over a US move to raise the country's human rights situation at the United Nations.
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Belarus officials say President Alexander Lukashenko handily won the right to seek a third term after a weekend vote questioned by the West and slammed by opponents of the authoritarian leader as a &quot;farce&quot;.
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MINSK, Belarus -- President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus said yesterday that he won a mandate from voters to stay in power in a weekend referendum scrapping presidential term limits, but foreign observers said the vote was marred by violations and thousands of people protested the outcome.
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As expected, the result of the referendum in Belarus appears to show overwhelming support for removing presidential term limits from the constitution.
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Riot police on Wednesday broke up a protest by several dozen students denouncing the police beating of a top opposition leader during a demonstration against a referendum that allows authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko to stay in power.
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Police on Thursday broke up a rally of 2,000 entrepreneurs protesting moves by the authoritarian government of Belarus to increase the burden on private business in the former Soviet republic.
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The president of Belarus, confident of victory in a referendum on Sunday to extend his rule, promised to serve his people better if they voted &quot;yes&quot; and told the West to keep criticism of his rule to itself.
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Voters in Belarus approved a referendum that will scrap term limits and allow the country&#39;s authoritarian leader to seek a third term in office.
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Belarus says it will back Russia if the US overrides Moscow's objections to building new missile bases in Europe.
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Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko, accused in the west of flouting democratic norms, won overwhelming approval in a referendum to run for a third term in office, the top election official said Monday.
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Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko, through Sunday's highly dubious constitutional referendum, has predictably succeeded in removing the last impediment to his absolute and unlimited rule -- scrapping ...
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Belarus, pilloried abroad for a referendum allowing its president to prolong his stay in office, hit back at Washington on Friday by denouncing next week's cliffhanger presidential election as undemocratic.
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MINSK: Voters in Belarus have overwhelmingly endorsed constitutional changes to allow authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko to seek a third tem in office, according to provisional results of a weekend referendum, the electoral commission chief has
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Belarus, its leaders shunned by much of the Western world, has snapped back at moves by the European Union and United States to restrict the movements of its senior officials and threatened to respond in kind.
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Belarus warned the United States it was heading toward a Cold War-style confrontation after President George W. Bush signed a law threatening sanctions against the former Soviet republic for its poor rights record.
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Belarus on Thursday dismissed new financial sanctions imposed by the United States as politically senseless, and President Alexander Lukashenko said his country was ready to normalize relations with Washington.
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They protest against the results of the referendum allowing Belarussian leader Alexander Lukashenko to run for president for the third time.