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Keep Belarus off the rink

Despite a deplorable human rights record, Belarus will host the 2014 World Ice Hockey Championship. German MP Marina Schuster argues organisers should take the competition elsewhere

: President Alexander Lukashenko on the ice during a match on 8 September 2011.

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Conference urges ministers to “Suspend Belarus from the OSCE”

05 Dec 11 | News and features

Index on Censorship’s Mike Harris joined a panel debate at the OSCE parallel conference on adopting a joint resolution on Belarus, giving consideration to the country’s suspension from the OSCE, which will now go to the Council of Ministers.

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Campaign success: Deutsche Bank and BNP Paribas stop selling government bonds to Belarus

26 Oct 11 | Campaigns, Europe and Central Asia

Two more foreign banks halt cooperation with Belarus after German Chancellor Angela Merkel tells Index on Censorship and Free Belarus Now that she would intervene to stop Deutsche Bank from selling government bonds to Europe’s last dictatorship.

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Arab Spring is a wake up call for European dictatorships

27 Sep 11 | News and features

Minsk is as close to Berlin as London is. Yet, an iron curtain separates the two capitals. In 2011, over a decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the nation of Belarus holds out as the last dictatorship in Europe, writes John Kampfner
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