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September 2022 - Belarus Special Weapons News
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- Meeting with President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko President of Russia 26 Sep 2022 -- Vladimir Putin met with President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko at the Bocharov Ruchei residence.
- Belarus's Fate Intertwined With Ukraine's, Opposition Leader Says RFE/RL 24 Sep 2022 -- The leader of the Belarusian opposition says Russia views neither Belarus nor Ukraine as independent sovereign states and the two countries should fight together to safeguard their very existence.
- VOA Interview: Belarusian Opposition Leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya VOA 19 Sep 2022 -- Responding to a series of questions on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the leader of the Belarusian opposition, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, told VOA that the democratic world should not be “putting the [Alexander Lukashenko] regime and the Belarusian people into one basket.”
- Belarusian 'Railway Guerrilla' Sentenced To 15 Years In Prison RFE/RL 16 Sep 2022 -- A court in the eastern Belarusian city of Vitsebsk has sentenced a man to 15 years in prison on charges of damaging railways to disrupt the supply of Russian arms and troops to war-torn Ukraine.
- Xi meets with Belarusian President Lukashenko PLA Daily 16 Sep 2022 -- Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday afternoon met with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko at Forumlar Majmuasi Complex in Samarkand.
- Council of Europe launches regular dialogue with Belarusian democratic forces Council of Europe 08 Sep 2022 -- The Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers has agreed to hold regular exchanges with Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya and other representatives of Belarusian democratic opposition forces, following a fruitful exchange of views with Ms Tsikhanouskaya on 6 July.
- Belarus Starts Unannounced Military Exercises Near EU Border RFE/RL 08 Sep 2022 -- Belarusian defense officials have announced the start of military exercises near the Russian ally's western border with EU member Poland and farther east.
- OSCE human rights office alarmed by court verdicts against human rights defenders in Belarus OSCE 07 Sep 2022 -- Following verdicts against a number of human rights defenders in Belarus in a trial held behind closed doors, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) expressed alarm about the increasing repression of human rights defenders in the country as well as the lack of fair trial guarantees.
- Five Belarusian Activists, Including U.S. Citizen, Convicted Of Plotting Coup RFE/RL 05 Sep 2022 -- A court in Minsk has convicted Yuras Zyankovich, a Belarusian-born lawyer who also holds U.S. citizenship, and four co-defendants of allegedly planning to assassinate authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka and his family and seize power in the country.
- Belarusian Gets Three Years In Prison For Sharing Pictures Of Russian Troop Movements RFE/RL 05 Sep 2022 -- A court in southeastern Belarus has sentenced an IT specialist to three years in prison for taking pictures of Russian troops heading to Ukraine and sharing them with the Belaruski Hayun Telegram channel.
- Exiled Belarusian Opposition Leader Tsikhanouskaya to Attend UNGA in Person VOA 05 Sep 2022 -- Exiled Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya plans to attend United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meetings in person for the first time since the disputed Belarusian presidential election in August 2020, according to diplomatic sources close to her.
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