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Monday, 31 August 2020_The Kremlin says the situation in Belarus is under control, stressing that Russia sees no need to send forces to calm the post-election unrest in the neighboring country.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a conference call with reporters on Monday that Belarusian security forces and the country's leadership were keeping the situation under control in "quite an assured manner.”
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko won the country’s presidential election on August 9 by a landslide, securing a sixth term in office. But Lukashenko’s political opponents and Belarus’ opposition organized riots and mass protests, claiming electoral fraud and demanding that the election be repeated.
Rejecting the allegations of vote rigging and an election repeat, the Belarusian leader has warned of a Western plot to destabilize the country and turned to Putin for help with maintaining security.
Putin announced last week that the Kremlin had set up a special police force to support Lukashenko at his request, but said it would not be deployed unless unrest there spun out of control.
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