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Belarus contested elections in August 2020 led to huge anti-government protests and calls for the resignation of Lukashenko.
By Tim Lister, CNN
When Youras Ziankovich, a lawyer with American citizenship, returned to his Moscow hotel after a lunch date with a friend in April, he found four men waiting for him in the street.
Ziankovich’s wife, Alena Dzenisavets, says that according to the manager of the Nordic Rooms hotel, the men all in plain clothes put a hood over his head and bundled him into a car outside the hotel in the Moscow suburb of Ostankino.
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