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Amid an ongoing crackdown on dissent in Belarus, a former worker of the Belarusian Metallurgical Works in the eastern city of Zhlobin has gone on trial for their participation in the 2020 protests against the presidential election that named Alyaksandr Lukashenka the winner.
Russia has probably spent up to $211 billion in equipping, deploying, and maintaining its troops for operations in Ukraine and Moscow has lost more than $10 billion in canceled or postponed arms sales, a senior U.S. defense official said.
Labeled "extremists" at home, independent Belarusian journalists living and working abroad worry that troubles attracting advertising and competition for media grants mean that their work encouraging Belarusians to support democracy is under threat.