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In reply to this comment by ShadowM8:
Well lets define poverty. There is no question that Belarus had been spared the plundering of its natural resource, the complete and utter collapse of its social and economic system to the extent that was seen in Russia and almost all other counties of the former USSR. So the overall standard of living has been maintained, where as it dropped 10 fold in other breakaway republics and hasn't recovered since for the most part. So poverty is rather relative!

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In reply to this comment by ShadowM8:
Some of the stuff coming out of BBC lately is rather disappointingfor lack of a better word. Belarus was much more open even a few years ago until all this talk of "last dictatorship" started to appear from EU and US. We've been though this before, pink, rose, orange revolutions of so called dictatorships and there’s no wonder the Belarus government is clamping down on NGOs and "rights groups". All Europe needs is another country with forced market capitalism to throw its population into egregious poverty.