VILNIUS - If the version of reality to which Lithuania, the United States and the European Union subscribe, Belarus was officially without a head of state on July 21. Current President Alexander Lukashenko's term, they say, finished July 20.Lukashenko disagrees. In 1996, two years after winning the country's presidential post, Lukashenko organized a referendum on a new constitution that extended his original five-year term until 2001. Lukashenko also dissolved Belarus' democratically elected Parliament that year.But Western countries as well as Belarusian dissidents refuse to recognize the ...
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