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Now playing Next Belarus Belarus elections were a 'sham', US says, as results are announced Belarus election commission says 73 per cent of the country's eligible voters took part in the polls, filling all 110 seats in the national parliament. 26/02/2024
Now playing Next Belarus Belarusians vote in tightly controlled election amid boycott call President Alexander Lukashenko has relied on subsidies and political support from his main ally, Russia, to survive the protests that followed his fraudulent re-election in 2020. 25/02/2024
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Now playing Next Belarus Belarus political prisoner dies after 'lack of medical care' Vadzim Khrasko died of pneumonia in a penal colony near the northeastern city of Vitebsk after prison authorities were slow in taking him to hospital. 16/01/2024
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