Moscow Slams Minsk’s ‘Harsh’ Sentences

Shenderovich holding a poster of Sannikov and his family during a one-man picket at the Belarussian Embassy. The Foreign Ministry criticized Belarus on Monday for handing down “harsh” prison sentences to opposition activists convicted for protests over a December election in which President Alexander Lukashenko won a new term. The ministry said the sentences against opposition presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov and others convicted after being arrested […]