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How Bell Pottinger, P.R. Firm for Despots and Rogues, Met Its End in South Africa
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/04/business/bell-pottinger-guptas-zuma-south-africa.html

If an autopsy could have been performed on Bell Pottinger, Britain’s most audacious public relations firm, the cause of death may have been summarized as “acute embarrassment.”

This is ironic because Bell Pottinger always seemed defiantly beyond shame. During its 30 years in the upper echelons of Britain’s spin doctoring game, it sought to polish the image of dictators (Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus), repressive regimes (Bahrain and Egypt, to name two) and celebrities accused of despicable crimes (the Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius after he was charged with murder).

But in early 2016, Bell Pottinger signed a client that ultimately buried it in disgrace.

Solidarité avec les anarchistes biélorusses !
▻http://lahorde.samizdat.net/2015/02/22/solidarite-avec-les-anarchistes-bielorusses

Appel à solidarité du 25 Février au 1 Mars : Montrez vos culs[1] ! L’actuel mandat présidentiel d’Alexander Lukashenko prendra fin en 2015. En 21 ans, ce dernier aura réussi à réduire au silence la quasi totalité des luttes sociales du pays, assassiner plusieurs opposants politiques au cours des années 90, et faire disparaître quasiment [&hellip

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Belarus to de-Russify schools, ready to defend against invasion
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/russia-and-former-soviet-union/belarus-to-de-russify-schools-and-ready-to-defend-from-unmarked-troops-378

Belarus has begun the process of “de-Russification” in schools and throughout the nation, local news website BelNovosti informs on Jan. 26. The move by the nation of 10 million people — tightly controlled by President Alexander Lukashenko — is signal that Belarus may be trying to distance itself politically from Russia.

Belarus Education Minister Mikhail Zhuravkov has said that, considering the large number of Russian-speaking citizens in the country, the process would be gradual. At the first stage, it includes the teaching of such two subjects — the history and geography of Belarus — only in the Belarusian language.

The Ministry of Education hopes that it will help pupils to love their mother tongue and stimulate a desire to learn other subjects also in the Belarusian language.

Starting Feb. 1, a new “martial law” comes into force. According to the document, the emergence of unmarked servicemen from another country on Belarusian territory will be considered aggression.

On commence donc la biélorussification par l’étude de la vie et de l’œuvre du Président Loukachenko, sous le regard de bon-papa Loukachenko…

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Poroshenko asks Belarusian president to help arrange trilateral meeting of Donbas contact group in Minsk on July 31
▻http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/216031.html

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has called on his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko to help arrange a meeting of a trilateral contact group in Minsk on July 31 to settle the situation in the east of Ukraine.

“Petro Poroshenko has announced his appeal to President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko for assistance in arranging a meeting in Minsk on July 31 of the trilateral contact group on the settlement of the situation in Donbas, including second president of [independent] Ukraine Leonid Kuchma, Russian Ambassador Mikhail Zurabov and an OSCE representative,” the presidential press service reported on Tuesday evening.

Who’s that boy in the grey suit? It’s Kolya Lukashenko - the next dictator of Belarus... - The Independent

►http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/whos-that-boy-in-the-grey-suit-its-kolya-lukashenko--the-next-dictato

Friday 29 June 2012

Seven-year-old, illigitimate son named by Lukashenko as leader in waiting

The next President of Belarus already has plenty of experience of the trappings of high office, having overseen military parades, sat in on Cabinet meetings, and met several world leaders when he accompanies his father, the current president Alexander Lukashenko, on trips abroad.

World News - ’Better a dictator than gay,’ Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko says
►http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/05/10580407-better-a-dictator-than-gay-belarus-president-alexander

Alexander Lukashenko, the authoritarian president of Belarus, on Sunday criticized EU politicians who have threatened him with sanctions and in an apparent riposte to the German foreign minister’s branding him “Europe’s last dictator,” said: “Better to be a dictator than gay.”

Guido Westerwelle is Germany’s first openly gay minister.

European Union leaders at a summit in Brussels on Friday called for new measures to pressure the Belarus president over alleged human rights abuses.

Lukashenko has led Belarus since 1994, retaining Soviet-style controls over the economy and cracking down on opposition and independent media.