VILNIUS (BNS) - Semion Sharetsky, a Belarusian opposition leader currently living in Lithuania, says he hopes the Belarusian people will soon rebel against President Alexander Lukashenko."There is a limit to people's patience," Sharetsky told the Lithuanian daily Respublika.Sharetsky, the former speaker of the Parliament that was dissolved by Lukashenko in 1996, is considered by the Belarusian opposition the temporary president of the country.Lukashenko's term in office was supposed to expire in July, but in 1996, shortly after dissolving the Parliament, he pushed through a referendum that ...
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