At heart, Lukashenko remains a man of Russia's Brezhnev era: His secret police even still use the acronym KGB.

本质上，卢卡申科仍然是苏俄勃列日涅夫时代的人物：他的秘密警察仍然沿用KGB的伎俩。

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His greatest weakness was choosing the wrong friends, Ahmadinejad, Lukashenko and Syria's dictator Assad.

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This is also, unfortunately, not the case in Belarus, as idiotic as Lukashenko is.

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Alexander Lukashenko has held out against the onset of popular democracies surrounding him (Russia? see below).

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