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Cueball
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posted 16 October 2004 04:20 AM

'Little Stalin' tightens grip on Belarus

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The man who has fashioned this modern-day dictatorship is Alexander Lukashenko, a balding, moustachioed former collective farm chairman who has made rabble-rousing and xenophobic rhetoric his political stock-in-trade.

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saskganesh
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posted 16 October 2004 04:28 AM

and he's a hockey nut too.

belarus is also apparently a conduit for russian arms sales.

and thats all i know about belarus.

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N.Beltov
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posted 16 October 2004 09:59 AM

Klingons love holidaying in their capital, Minsk.

Oh yea...1 in 4 Byelorussians were killed in WW2. That's no small potatoes.

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