The extensive rule of Alexander Lukashenko, the embattled president of Belarus, has remaining his country economically depleted and reliant on Russia, largely trapped in its Soviet-period previous and likely certain to Moscow for quite a few several years to come.
Mr. Lukashenko, Belarus’s president for 26 several years and a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has presided around a top-down political and financial procedure that he tightly controls, with considerably of the economic system nonetheless in the arms of the state.
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