Belarus' opposition activists are skeptical about Brussels' decision to invite the country's authoritarian president, Alexander Lukashenko, to the so-called Eastern Partnership summit in late November.
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Six Lithuanian parliamentarians have not been issued visas to travel to Belarus for an opposition event in Minsk on Monday.
Tatyana Korotkevich, a presidential candidate in the upcoming presidential elections in Belarus this autumn, says she doesn’t expect to become president but just wants to unite Belarusian people who want peaceful changes.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is interested in the continuity of the Ukrainian war as it helps to disguise his country's internal problems and avoid the West's criticism for non-democratic processes, says Anatoly Lyabedzko, one of the Belarusian opposition leaders.
“Ukraine” is now the worst word in Belarus, representatives of the Belarusian opposition said in Vilnius on Monday, also stating that Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has found himself in a standstill in terms of the country’s relations with Russia.
