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The leader of the forest, Yevgeny Prigozhin is in Russia
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko on Thursday said the rebel leader in Russia’s Rostov-on-Don province, Igor Prigozhin, is in the Russian city of St Petersburg. “He is a free man…But what will happen later?” Lukashenko asked. The Russian mercenary force Wagner has withdrawn from Rostov-on-Don after Lukashenko’s intervention last month in a mutiny led by Prigozhin.
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The Center of Civil Liberties was the winner of the peace prize.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee on Sunday awarded the 2018 Peace Prize to Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ally Alexey Navalny and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for their “long-standing devotion to human rights and democracy”. Lukashenko was detained in 2012 on charges of plotting against the government. Russia has been engaged in a…