As riot police chased and beat protesters through the streets of Minsk two weeks ago, at the height of the protests against electoral fraud, the main news of Belarus One, the largest state television channel, opened with a news story about the price of rapeseed oil. "Farmers work better than ever, we have meat, salt and butter," said Aleksandr Lukashenko ...
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