Alexander Lukashenko
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Sponsors of IIHF championships had begun to drop out after violent government crackdown on protests
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The democratic opposition in Belarus, led by Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, has won the freedom of thought prize
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Roman Bondarenko, 31, died after being beaten by plainclothes police officers in Minsk
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Asset freeze and travel ban come with censure of regime’s ‘thuggery’ against its people
The world is rocked by protest – but does taking to the streets ever work?