Belarus President Lukashenko Visits Jail To Hold Talks With Detained Political Opponents

RT: Belarus’ Lukashenko meets JAILED opposition activists, talks constitutional reform

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has paid an unexpected visit to a detention center in Minsk, meeting incarcerated members of the so-called ‘Coordination council of the opposition’.

The unusual move was reported by local media on Saturday, with a short video from the meeting emerging on social media later in the day.

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WNU Editor: This trip to the prison is interesting. I do not see Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko making a compromise that would lessen his power. So why did he go? To offer some vague set of reforms to defuse the unrest. If so. It failed.

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