Russian dictator Vladimir Putin congratulated his colleague Alexander Lukashenko on being re-elected as the President of Belarus. "You are always a welcome and dear guest on Russian soil. As agreed, I will soon be waiting for you in Moscow,

Victory “demonstrates your high political authority,” the Kremlin chief gushes about his counterpart in Minsk.

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