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Minsk securocrats team up with dissidents to paint a picture of occupation

In the darker recesses of government and among politically active exiles, a new initiative is taking shape: that Belarus should be viewed as Russian-occupied territory. [...] (632 words)

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Alexander Lukashenko
Alexander Volfovitch
CBRB
Commonwealth of Independent States
Coordination Council
GUR
National Anti-Crisis Management
Pavel Latushko
SBU
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya
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Versatility-driven Minsk focuses on made-in-Belarus arms

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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on May 16, 2022, during the meeting of heads of state of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation.

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How Russia is working to absorb Belarusian news networks into sovereign internet

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Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko (L) during exercises of the Russian strategic deterrent forces in Moscow, 19 February 2022.

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President of Russia Vladimir Putin and President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, at Sochi on the 15th of February 2019.

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Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko with his son Dmitri Lukashenko.

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Uneasy Lukashenko presses ahead with his reform of the national security council

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Alexander Volfovitch
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Coordination Council
GUR
National Anti-Crisis Management
Pavel Latushko
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Infighting tears apart Belarus opposition as Moscow, EU and US watch

Western intelligence services keeping close eye on growing threat of civil war in Belarus

Dissident militias involved in Ukraine conflict worry Minsk security chiefs

Versatility-driven Minsk focuses on made-in-Belarus arms

How Russia is working to absorb Belarusian news networks into sovereign internet

Minsk opposition keeps up connections with Moscow

Power-struggles cause turmoil in Minsk security circles

Alisia, the French operation that neutralised Lukashenko

Under pressure from Moscow, Lukashenko closes ranks around his new constitutional project

NATO outpost Vilnius chagrined over loss of its Belarusan potash business

Minsk makes murky play to become first EU migrant smuggler

Siloviki take hold of diplomacy and industrial relations in Belarus

Lukashenko Jr lands presidential security roles for hockey players

Uneasy Lukashenko presses ahead with his reform of the national security council

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