Word: pashkevich
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Dates: during 1996-1996
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...illegal." But across town, members said they had the necessary quorum to declare themselves the actual, working parliament, and seemed determined to follow their new ally. "Those people in that other building are just a group of deputies sitting around talking," said one of them, former Communist lawmaker Ivan Pashkevich. "The parliament can work wherever it wants." Parliament had united in recent months in opposing Lukashenko's persistent power-grabbing; since Friday, however, when parliament rejected a Russian-brokered compromise, there have been growing fractures in the anti-Lukashenko group. Meanwhile, its remaining members have vowed to resume impeachment proceedings...
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