Our view ... is that economic sanctions tend to hit the people in the street rather than the regime, and they're not very effective.
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We will tell our people the truth, it's up to them to decide their country's future.
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I came to the meeting ... considering it to have been sanctioned. Police there did not say it had not been sanctioned. Therefore, I think the charge is not just and I do not consider myself guilty. This is a political sentence. The leaders of political parties are being put behind bars.
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The authorities are destroying freedom, truth and justice. There was only enough democracy for three days and this shows the essence of the regime that has been established in Belarus.
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