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September 12, 2020 at 3:23 pm

As both sides dig in, what’s the endgame for Belarus?

MOSCOW — Viewers of a news show on Belarusian state TV got an unpleasant surprise recently when a disparaging report about protests sweeping their East...

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September 7, 2020 at 3:35 pm

Belarus Protest Leader Vanishes Amid Reports of Masked Abductors

MOSCOW — Maria Kolesnikova, the last prominent protest leader in Belarus still at large, vanished Monday and local news media outlets reported that she had...

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August 17, 2020 at 3:34 pm

No Longer Cowed, Belarus Has Message for Once-Mighty Dictator: ‘Go Away!’

MINSK, Belarus — In an age of ascendant strongman leaders, President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus is suddenly looking surprisingly weak. As protests against his rule...

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August 12, 2020 at 1:30 pm

For Belarus Leader, a Fading Aura of Invincibility

MOSCOW — The autocratic leader of Belarus, never a stickler for accurate vote counting, boasted early in his 26-year rule that he was so popular...

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August 10, 2020 at 4:30 pm

Belarus’ Leader Vows to Crush Protests After Claiming Landslide Election Win

MINSK, Belarus — A day after the leader of Belarus, often called “Europe’s last dictator,” claimed a landslide reelection victory, his capital slipped into mayhem...

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August 9, 2020 at 7:07 pm

Belarus Says Longtime Leader Is Reelected in Vote Critics Call Rigged

MINSK, Belarus — He bungled the coronavirus pandemic, alienated his long-standing foreign ally and last week faced the biggest anti-government protests in decades, but on...

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June 29, 2020 at 10:24 am

Putin Pushes Through Referendum Even as Virus Surges in Russia

Despairing of finding enough beds for patients stricken with the coronavirus, a nurse in the Siberian city of Irkutsk has been forced to begin taking...

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June 14, 2020 at 5:32 pm

Putin Says U.S. Is in ‘Deep Internal Crisis’

MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Sunday described the United States as a country gripped by a “deep internal crisis” and attributed...

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**EMBARGO: No electronic distribution, Web posting or street sales before MONDAY 3:01 a.m. ET APRIL 27, 2020. No exceptions for any reasons. EMBARGO set by source.**A detail from a makeshift memorial for the victims in the forest at Sandarmokh in the northwestern Russian region of Karelia where thousands of victims of Stalin were executed, March 21, 2020. Yuri Dmitriev, an amateur but very determined historian, found the burial mounds containing the remains of political prisoners executed by Stalin’s secret police in the forest of Sandarmokh but is now in jail and governmental excavations are underway to undo his work. (Davide Monteleone/The New York Times) XNYT114

April 27, 2020 at 4:00 pm

He found one of Stalin’s mass graves. Now he’s in jail. VIEW

Yuri Dmitriev's life work is the political prisoners executed by Josef Stalin’s secret police in Karelia, northern Russia. But Dmitriev ran afoul of Russia's determination...

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March 16, 2020 at 11:47 am

Russia’s Highest Court Opens Way for Putin to Rule Until 2036

Dutifully performing its role in a highly-choreographed display of political theater, Russia’s highest court Monday approved constitutional changes that opened the way for President Vladimir...

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