Government in Belarus
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BELARUS, 2015/09/04
On 1 September the Central Elections Committee of Belarus announced that four presidential candidates had submitted enough signatures to run in elections scheduled for 11 October this year.
Although few question the outcome of this elections and the official victory of the incumbent President Alexander Lukashenka, the elections take place in a very different geopolitical context.
In the 2010 presidential elections, the authorities saw the Belarusian opposition as the major threat and crushed protests, putting several presidential candidates in jail. Next the recent events in Ukraine the authorities seem to view Russia as a additional critical threat although they would not publicly admit it.
