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Le Matin - Suiza | 16/03/2006

Belarus's thorny election

"The presidential election is likely to be nothing more than a farce. Not the most cheerful of news for the rest of the continent, which has thus shown its incapacity to enforce respect for human rights within Europe itself - even as the West so earnestly seeks to cast itself as a universal model of virtue!" writes Laszlo Monar. The regime of the current president, Alexander Lukashenko, survives thanks to Russian aid. Belarus's only large-scale exports to the West consist of Russian oil and gas - purchased at a quarter of the international price - which Belarus refines and resells at market rates. Russia is also the only serious buyer for Belarussian products. Moscow's generosity is certainly not dictated by love, but by a need to keep this rare European ally. In exchange for its loyalty, Russian President Vladimir Putin shuts his eyes to the abuses perpetrated against the citizens of this neighbouring country..."

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