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Opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya believes that the parliamentary elections in Belarus on Sunday will have nothing to do with democracy. “It is a farce, it is a show, it is a circus, but it is not an election,” she said on Thursday at a meeting with representatives of member states of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna. Under Belarus’ long-time ruler Alexander Lukashenko, political opponents have ended up in prison or fled abroad, said the exiled political activist. The vote, which is taking place in an atmosphere of fear and lack of freedom, onl…

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