{"id":69587,"date":"2024-02-26T12:37:55","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T09:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/?post_type=articles&p=69587"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"putin-congratulates-lukasenka-on-patriotic-forces-victory","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/69587\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin congratulates \u0141uka\u0161enka on “patriotic forces” victory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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February 26, Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka “on the confident victory of the Belarusian patriotic forces” in the February 20-25 parliamentary and local elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“High voter turnout and the voting results clearly confirm the broad support for the harmonious socio-economic development course of Belarus under your leadership, ensuring domestic political stability and promotion of mutually beneficial integration within the Union State,” Putin\u2019s press office quoted him as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Russian ruler also hopes that newly elected Belarusian MPs and local council deputies will cooperate with their Russian counterparts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The elections took place amid mass-scale reprisals and a political landscape purge. Not a single opposition candidate was allowed to run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About two-thirds of the newly elected MPs, 70 out of 110, represent pro-government parties, while the rest are nonpartisan supporters of \u0141uka\u0161enka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The United States and other democratic countries condemned Belarus’ elections as a sham. Ukrainian MPs from the For Democratic Belarus parliamentary group made a similar statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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