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Belarus: CIS Scandal

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006 @ 12:02 UTC

by Veronica Khokhlova

Countries:: Belarus, Russia
Topics:: Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Media, International Relations

TOL's Belarus Blog writes about the scandal involving Russian journalists that broke out during the CIS summit in the Belarusian capital. Also, there's a post about the pain the summit is causing to downtown Minsk.

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