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One of the questions I was repeatedly asked during a recent trip to the capital of Belarus was whether the Obama administration would opt for greater pragmatism at the expense of idealism in foreign policy.
WSJ: Europe's Last Dictatorship
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Two weeks later Mr Vaitovich criticised Belarus's foreign policy, in particular the recent denial of a visa to Hans-Georg Wieck, a retired German diplomat who as head of an international human-rights mission in Minsk, Belarus's capital, had been one of Mr Lukashenka's most tireless critics.
ECONOMIST: Belarus
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The presidents of five former Soviet states Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Tajikistan, Armenia and Belarus together with Russia, met in Bishkek, the capital of Kirgizstan, this week to discuss closer military and political integration.
ECONOMIST: Central Asia