Word: kozulin
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...felt pressure from Russia to recognize South Ossetia and Abkhazia but knew that doing so, when no country in the West recognizes either as independent, would push Belarus into international isolation. Instead, Lukashenko satisfied U.S. demands to release a large group of political prisoners, including former presidential candidate Alexander Kozulin. Last month, Russia canceled its last $500 million installment of a $2 billion IMF loan to Belarus as punishment for not recognizing the breakaway republics, Lukashenko claimed. "It's no coincidence that Lukashenko released key political prisoners within days of the August conflict," says Wilson. "He realized...
...nearby Yanka Kupala park. "There were some 20,000 of us packed in the park," Irina Khalip, a Belarusian journalist and human-rights activist, told Time by telephone. "The people were angry with the rigged election, mass arrests and inhuman treatment of the detainees." Khalip says that Alexander Kozulin, a key opposition leader and a presidential candidate in the election, led a protest march to the jail in Okrestina Street. Then things turned violent. "My husband walked up to the commanding officer smiling and with flowers in hand," Irina Kozulin told TIME in a call from Minsk. "But before...
...husband walked up to the commanding officer smiling and with flowers in hand. Before he started talking, the officer ordered attack." IRINA KOZULINA, wife of Belarus' opposition leader and former presidential candidate Alexander Kozulin , who was seized by riot police after leading thousands in what appeared to be a peaceful protest of the country's recent election results...
...Kozulin: A legitimately elected President does not have to react so cowardly. Lukashenko has overstepped all the boundaries. He is a menace to his own people. He has been scared of a revolution, but what he does not understand is that he has triggered that revolution himself. His abuse of power has triggered the most important revolution of all - the one in people's minds. Even many of those who had sided with him are now indignant at this rape of the Constitution and crackdown on the people...
...Kozulin: The U.S. and the E.U. stands have been very encouraging. However, it is important that they remain consistent positions, rather than just one-time declared stands. All the possibilities of talking with Lukashenko have been exhausted; he understands only the language of force. He is not a menace just to his own country; he is a menace to the world. If the international community wants to defuse this menace, the Belarusian issue must be brought to the U.N. Security Council and raised at the G-8 summit, planned in St. Petersburg, Russia in July. Otherwise, this summit will...