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Four years after the presidential election in Belarus was widely condemned as fraudulent, Lithuania on Friday re-echoed its support its neighbour’s democracy movement. “We believe in democratic future of Belarus. Freedom spirit always prevails!” President Gitanas Nausėda wrote on X. The Foreign Ministry in Vilnius also underlined the Baltic republic’s “strictly uncompromising” stance towards the “illegitimate regime” of long-term Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko. In the polls on August 9, 2020, Lukashenko, who has been in power since 1994, was again declared the winner, sparking protests …

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