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Belarus: Lukashenko says ice melts virus

5/6/2020, 8:51:37 AM


Since his election in 1994, the former leader of Sovkhoz has reigned supreme over the country, managing his regime by instinct.

" If you read somewhere that Lukashenko has gone mad and isn't doing the right thing, don't listen and don't read ." Thus addresses the President of Belarus, to his Moldavian counterpart, Igor Dodon, speaking of him in the third person. Since the start of the coronavirus epidemic, Alexandre Loukachenko has been plastering, fulminating, sneering, rascal. Filmed alone, Monday, in his presidential palace in Minsk, surrounded by television screens, the strong man of Belarus launched Monday in a long unbridled monologue where he mixed national pride, World War II and health expertise. From Chisinau, the Moldovan capital where he is confined, Igor Dodon interrupts his interlocutor simply to confirm that no one, better than the latter can " appreciate the situation in his own country" We cannot contradict the leader of Belarus.

Despite its variable geometry census of the pandemic, the Ministry of Health takes care to increase hygienic advice. With a balance sheet

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