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Belarusian protest leader Kolesnikova handed 11-year sentence

The Nomad Today/dpa 9/6/21

She was abducted by the Belarusian KGB in Minsk in early September 2020

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Belarusian opposition politician sentenced to 14 years in prison camp

The Nomad Today/dpa 7/6/21

The Supreme Court in the capital Minsk sentenced former banker and prominent opposition figure Viktor Babariko for alleged money laundering, bribery and tax evasion

HANDOUT - 21 September 2020, Belgium, Brussels: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (R) meets with Finnish Foreign Affairs Minister Pekka Haavisto at the NATO headquarters. Photo: NATO/dpa.

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Swedish foreign policy statement criticized for ignoring NATO option, unlike Finland

The Nomad Today/dpa 2/24/21

In December a majority of centre-right Swedish lawmakers said "Sweden should, like Finland , state that it is in favour of having a 'NATO option,'" referring to the defence alliance.

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Belarusian opposition plans mass protest march in Minsk on Sunday

The Nomad Today/dpa 9/12/20

The Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, members of the so-called Visegrad Group, will present a proposal to the European Council that visa-free travel be introduced for Belarusian citizens.

FILED - Opposition member Alexei Navalny participates in a demonstration in Moscow, Russia, 26 February 2017. The Russian opposition politician, arguably the fiercest domestic critic of President Vladimir Putin, is in a coma at a Siberian hospital after a suspected poisoning, his spokesperson said on Thursday. Photo: Claudia Thaler/dpa.

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Russian hospital: No sign Navalny poisoned, refuses evacuation abroad

The Nomad Today/dpa 8/21/20

A special aircraft to bring him from Siberia to Berlin took off from Germany early Friday with a team of doctors on board.

Opposition leader Alexei Navalny was taken directly from the aircraft to the ambulance. Image: Россия-24/YouTube.

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Putin critic Navalny in coma in Russian hospital, poisoning suspected

The Nomad Today/dpa 8/20/20

He was on a plane from the Siberian city of Tomsk en route to Moscow when he began to feel sick.

16 August 2020, Ukraine, Kiev: Protesters march with the historic Belarusian flags outside the Embassy of Belarus during a rally in solidarity with the Belarusian opposition that accuses Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of electoral fraud for receiving over 80 percent of the vote in the presidential election. Photo: Pavlo Gonchar/dpa.

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Belarus opposition to push for release of detained protesters

The Nomad Today 8/17/20

Criminal charges would be filed Monday over the deaths of two protesters and the violent response of police and the security forces against protesters and prisoners.