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NEMENOV/AFP/Getty ImagesBelarus For the last 30 years, autocrat Alexander Lukashenko has ruled this landlocked country in Eastern Europe bordered by Russia, Ukraine, Poland and the Baltic

states. His opponents are in prison, or have been exiled abroad.

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