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99/month for the first 3 months*LONDON - The anti-government demonstrations in Belarus may die down; after all, the country experienced a similar bout of popular dissent a decade ago, and that ultimately petered out.are sustained, Europe could soon find itself embroiled in a showdown of major consequences with Russia, not dissimilar from the one over Ukraine in 2014.
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