A Quick, Quiet Trip to Belarus Signals a Turn in U.S. Policy

A Quick, Quiet Trip to Belarus Signals a Turn in U.S. Policy

The senior American diplomat slipped quietly into Belarus, a police state run by a strongman reviled for decades in the West, traveling by car across the border for meetings with President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko and the head of his KGB security apparatus. It was Mr. Lukashenko’s first meeting with a …

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His Opponents Sidelined, Lukashenko Is Set for a 7th Term in Belarus

His Opponents Sidelined, Lukashenko Is Set for a 7th Term in Belarus

When Aleksandr G. Lukashenko last ran for president of Belarus, the former Soviet republic he has led since 1994, he faced an unusual phenomenon: rival candidates who actually tried to win. His eventual victory in that election, in 2020, widely regarded as fraudulent, was met with nationwide protests, a subsequent …

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