Preliminary exit polls from Belarus’s presidential election projected veteran leader Alexander Lukashenko to win 80% of the vote as he deployed troops to cordon off city squares and government buildings in the capital.
MOSCOW—Preliminary exit polls from Belarus’s presidential election projected its veteran leader, Alexander Lukashenko, to win 80% of the vote as he deployed troops to cordon off city squares and government buildings in the capital, Minsk.
Opposition supporters called for protests against what they described as a fraudulent election in which three of the main opposition candidates were barred from competing. Demonstrations and rallies in the run-up to Sunday’s vote suggested a groundswell of support for Svetlana Tikhanovskaya,...
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