THE LAST time that Belarus held an election, in August 2020, Alexander Lukashenko was embarrassed. After decades of successful vote rigging, Belarusians seemed determined to call time on his dictatorship. During the campaign they turned up in droves to support Svetlana Tsikhanouskaya, a former teacher who was standing in place of her vlogger husband after he had been arrested.
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