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• The Olympic saga came as police in Ukraine said a missing Belarusian activist, whose NGO helps his compatriots flee the country, had been found hanged in a park in Kiev

• The ministry described the sanctions as "hostile actions" and said Western countries were using "pressure on a sovereign state".

• Lukashenko, who has ruled Belarus since 1994, has so far shrugged off the pressure with backing from his key ally Russia.

• "This is a retrograde and disappointing development," Walsh said in a statement issued by the International Air Transport Association, which counts most of the world's major airlines among its 293 members.

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• The government took the decision late on Tuesday night, she added.

• The proposal comes amid outrage in Europe over Belarus's diversion of a Ryanair flight on Sunday and arrest of a dissident journalist on board.

• The TV footage showed Protasevich -- who could face 15 years in jail -- with dark markings on his forehead, saying he was being treated "according to the law."

• Sputnik V vaccine and planned to produce up to 500,000 doses of the shot per month.

• Western governments accuse Lukashenko of rigging the election and have adopted sanctions against top government officials.

• As the demonstrations subsided, activists, protesters and journalists were prosecuted and the court system has since become a conveyor belt of guilty verdicts.

• "The pressure has to be ramped up," she insisted.

• In January, inflation quickened to 7.7% in annual terms.

• Exiled opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya praised the two journalists for their defiance following the verdict.

• More than 200 trucks a day cross into European Union member Latvia at the Paternieki border point, some of them stuffed with smuggled cigarettes hidden among other cargo.

• "Despite the tensions in society artificially created by external forces, we survived," Lukashenko said, adding that Belarus "will hold out no matter what".

• The Nexta Telegram channel, which mobilised and coordinated demonstrators over the months of rallies, called for fresh demonstrations on Thursday and Friday when the assembly will be in session.

• Belarus, which received $500-million loan from Russia in late 2020.

• Belarus Health Minister said health workers and teachers would be among the first Belarusians to be inoculated.

• The two ex-Soviet neighbours have had a patchy relationship over the years and have quarrelled about a number of issues, including oil and gas sales.
• reselling some of it and oil products processed from the Russian barrels on to Europe until Moscow decided to stop the practice.

The measures, to be formalised with the publication of the list on Thursday, will be the third round of sanctions the European bloc has imposed on the regime of Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko.

• Several thousand protesters, many carrying the red-and-white opposition flag, joined a march in central Minsk on Sunday.