11-10-2015 20:11 via news.yahoo.com

Belarus exit polls show victory for 'last dictator in Europe'

By Andrei Makhovsky MINSK (Reuters) - Exit polls in Belarus showed President Alexander Lukashenko winning a fifth term by a landslide on Sunday in elections that could see an easing of relations with the West and raise questions about his ties to Vladimir Putin's Russia. Lukashenko's re-election five years ago led to mass protests and the imprisonment of leading opposition figures, but support for his 20-year-old regime has risen since he cast himself as a guarantor of stability in the face of e
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