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Putin and Lukashenko meet in Saint Petersburg for the Supreme State Council of the Russia-Belarus Union State, aiming to further integrate Russia and Belarus. Twenty political analysts, economists, and journalists were targeted under new criminal proceedings in absentia in Belarus.
Russian police made several arrests after dozens of residents of Yakutsk gathered in a central square of the eastern Siberian city to protest the alleged murder of a local man by a suspect who they said was Tajik.
The Investigative Committee of Belarus has launched a "special investigation" of 20 individuals now living outside the country including RFE/RL journalist and analyst Yury Drakakhrust for providing comments to indepdendent media in Belarus.
Hungary's opposition will probably request an extraordinary parliament session to ratify Sweden's NATO accession but their effort will likely fail, speaker of parliament Laszlo Kover told Index.hu on January 25.