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6 reasons not to worry about Russia invading the Baltics Robert Person - November 12, 2015 [caption id="attachment_32090" align="aligncenter" width="908"] Russian President Vladimir Putin and Serbian
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Belarus’s president has scheduled the next election. Has he already won his fifth term? Tatsiana Kulakevich - July 15, 2015 [caption id="attachment_27466" align="aligncenter" width="1484"] A Belarusian detainee, arrested during the
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