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...for all the tough talk coming from Europe, he is likely to get off the hook. Lukashenko has started playing nice again and, more importantly, playing the card that he has been the victim of Russian aggression. The ploy is quite likely to work — and it won't be the first time
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"I think there will be a big debate between those countries who want to show a commitment to democratic values and those with the so-called pragmatic approach," says Matyas Eorsi, the Hungarian politician who led one of the largest factions in the European Parliament, the ALDE Group, between 2001 and 2009. "But the problem is always how to keep Belarus away from Russia," Eorsi tells TIME. "That is what pragmatism demands, because it would be a terrible mistake to push Belarus into the hands of Putin."
(иностранный журнал Тайм)