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Lukashenko to go back on EU visa ban list
04 01 2011, ANDREW RETTMAN, http://euobserver.com

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt has said that Belarusian leader Aleksander Lukashenko will be put back on an EU visa ban list along with dozens of officials responsible for post-election beatings and arrests. Speaking to EUobserver by phone on Monday (3 January) Mr...
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Lithuanian top officials rejected former Lithuanian President criticism over Lithuania's policy towards Belarus
03 01 2011, Vilnius, BNS

Lithuanian top officials on Monday rejected former Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus' criticism over Lithuania's policy towards Belarus. Adamkus had called "Lithuania's foreign policy towards Belarus a catastrophe", and his successor's spokesman said on Monday that "Belarus'...
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Lithuanian President will appeal to EU with a request to simplify the issuing of visas for Belarusian citizens
03 01 2011, Vilnius, BNS

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite will appeal to top officials of the European Union (EU) with a request to simplify the issuing of visas for Belarusian citizens and also to cut visa prices, Lithuanian officials said on Monday. Grybauskaite's spokesman cited her as urging Belarus'...
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Bloody Sunday came to Belarus
26 12 2010, Jörgen Johansen, http://resistancestudies.org

Nash Dom Civic Campaign members give their accounts of what happened and is happening in the country now. Women are among the most affected. Russia in 1905. India in 1930. Hungary in 1956. South Africa in 1960 and 1986. Chechslovakia in 1968. Poland in 1956 and 1970. American South in...
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Lukashenko the Loser
23 12 2010, CARL BILDT, KAREL SCHWARZENBERG, RADEK SIKORSKI and GUIDO WESTERWELLE, http://www.nytimes.com

There can be no business-as-usual between the European Union and Belarus’ president, Aleksandr Lukashenko, after what has happened since the presidential election in Belarus last Sunday. In recent months, hope had grown that his words could be taken seriously. He promised to invite...
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Statement from European Humanities University (EHU)
20 12 2010, EHU

EHU students and teachers have been arrested in Minsk European Humanities University is especially concerned over excessive use of force by the Belarusian authorities after Presidential election on December 19, including the beating and detention of several presidential candidates and violence...
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Lukashenka’s show of “democratic” presidential election failed spectacularly
Eastern Europe Studies Centre, http://www.eesc.lt

The 2010 presidential election in Belarus were supposed to be a copybook example of democratically run elections. A. Lukashenka was outspoken on his plans to prove to the West that he is capable of wining a landslide victory even in democratic elections and thus expose the weakness of the...
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A Humanitarian disaster in Belarus
Eastern Europe Studies Centre, http://www.eesc.lt/

"A Humanitarian disaster in Belarus", such was the title of a press conference held by the Lithuanian parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs on December 29, 2010. The conference followed a parliamentary resolution adopted on December 23, which deemed the presidential election...
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