Despite glaring contempt for world opinion, the Belarusian dictator is not completely independent of it.
Now, Chavez has extended his network to include a new partnership with the Belarusian dictator, Lukashenko.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Chavez comes to the aid of Lukashenko
Chavez perceives the alliance to be strategic because of the Belarusian over-capacity of military production.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Chavez comes to the aid of Lukashenko
His father, Aliaksandr, says he was twice summoned by the Belarusian state security service, still called the KGB.
Another dictator, the Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, has come to the rescue and paid the Belarusian debt to Gazprom.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Chavez comes to the aid of Lukashenko
Currently, the Belarusian economy is characterized by an over-concentration on high-tech military production.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Chavez comes to the aid of Lukashenko
Belarusian Potash Corp. has a monopoly on Russian and Belarusian potash and controls over a third of global exports.
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In 1995, current Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko praised Adolph Hitler in a Russian NTV interview, igniting widespread international indignation.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Chavez comes to the aid of Lukashenko
The Belarusian government expects to earn enough profits so that they will eventually be able to develop their own refineries.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Chavez comes to the aid of Lukashenko
That is why the acquisition of a Belarusian anti-aircraft missile system of Russian technology plays the strategic role he claims.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Chavez comes to the aid of Lukashenko
Nadia, meantime, was singing weird Belarusian pop beneath her breath as she got up on the footstool to polish the optics.
Typical Belarusian New Year celebrations take place according to the 'old' Julian style calendar and are combined with distinctive local performing arts.
The Belarusian won 6-3, 6-4 for a 14th career title, following on from her success in Beijing where she beat Maria Sharapova.
The American will play Victoria Azarenka in the final after the Belarusian overcame Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska in straight sets in the second semi-final.
The Yak-42 plane was carrying the team to Minsk, the Belarusian capital, for the start of the new Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) season.
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For example, suppose someone in Belarus buys something from Amazon, which is not a Belarusian company and thus is not registered in Belarus.
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Well, the Belarusian tech site Onliner.by made waves yesterday by publishing the clearest photos yet of the alleged LG Nexus, the E960.
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In addition, Chavez plans to give the Belarusian state oil firm concessions to exploit oil fields and sell the petroleum to the United States.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Chavez comes to the aid of Lukashenko
In the US we have our own censorship laws to contend with, but obviously nothing nearly so extreme as the Belarusian government is planning.
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The Belarusian authorities failed to ensure the fundamental conditions necessary for the will of the people to serve as a basis for authority of government.
The human rights violations of the current Belarusian regime are notorious.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Chavez comes to the aid of Lukashenko
The democratic aspiration of Belarusian people also needs to be met.
It also provides humanitarian aid and supports children with cancer, while its volunteers also work on an annual holiday camp for Belarusian children with special needs.
Cavendish, who was pipped by Belarusian Yauheni Hutarovich on Monday, took to the front early in the sprint to end the 198.8km fifth stage into Lorca.
Last year the Belarusian president refused to recognise the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, the two breakaway Georgian territories over which Russia had warred with Georgia.
The transaction is illegal, and so the Belarusian Attorney General would send a note to Amazon informing it that it is violating national law and might be sued.
Alexei, the conspicuously walleyed Belarusian, had gone to survey the scene from an upstairs window and he returned to report that the car park beside the hotel was flooded completely.
Mr Lukashenka would not sell Belarusian refineries to Russian firms, he refused to recognise the independence of the breakaway Georgian provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and he sheltered Mr Bakiyev.
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For their part, America and the European Union have banned assorted Belarusian officials from entering their countries, and are trying to freeze their foreign assets (though not much loot seems to have turned up).
Russia is also stirring up the Belarusian opposition.
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