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Belarus has undergone profound political changes in the past year. The EU’s strategy and response chiefly has focused on leveling sanctions on the regime of Alexander Lukashenko. The longtime ruler kept his grip on power by rigging the country’s fraudulent August 2020 presidential election and unleashing police brutality against the peaceful protesters who then took to the streets. In response, the EU has imposed three sets of sanctions. These included visa bans and asset freezes on over eighty Belarusian officials and financial and business restrictions on seven economic entities associated with the regime. These measures, however, have not deterred the Belarusian authorities from pursuing hardline tactics. Perhaps even emboldened by the limited sanctions, the regime has tightened the screws further. Arrests, imprisonments, and political firings have become commonplace. Between May 2020 and the end of the year, over 33,000 people were detained and prosecuted, and 900 individual

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