The early vote began on January 21 in Belarus for a presidential election, the result of which is no doubt: Alexandre Loukachenko will re -stack for a five -year term. After the election of 2020, where his power had seemed to falter in the face of the challenge of the results, the strong man of the country strengthened his stranglehold at the cost of an all -out repression which earned him sanctions from the West. A West that the president accused of having fomented a conspiracy against his person. In any case, these sanctions have led Alexandre Loukachenko to accelerate his rapprochement with a Russia also sanctioned since 2022.
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Belarus-Russia, accelerated cooperation in the shade of sanctions
