Belarusians vote in election to extend Lukashenko's 30-year rule

Belarusians voted on Sunday in an election set to hand President Alexander Lukashenko a seventh term, prolonging his three-decade authoritarian rule. Lukashenko -- a 70-year-old former collective farm boss -- has been in power in reclusive, Moscow-allied Belarus since 1994. Speaking after casting his vote in the capital Minsk, the self-avowed "dictator" dismissed critics of [...]The post Belarusians vote in election to extend Lukashenko's 30-year rule appeared first on The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News.

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