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Belarus election 2020: Could Lukashenko's days be numbered?

DW, 02 Aug 2020

Svetlana Tikhanovskaya is a stay-at-home mother of two in Belarus. But in a matter of months, she's turned into President Alexander Lukashenko's top election rival. Overnight, mass crowds turned out in the capital Minsk to support the 37-year-old opposition leader who is challenging Lukashenko's decades-long rule. But he accuses the opposition of trying to topple him with foreign assistance.

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