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More than 20 people in the Belarussian capital Minsk are reported to have been arrested in what has become a regular weekly protest against the authoritarian government and economic policies.
Four-term President Alexander Lukashenko’s rough police intervention has silenced slogans, so the demonstrators now clap.
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