Belorussians protest against planned Russian air base

Around 1,000 Belorussians took to the streets to protest a plan to allow Russia to set up an air base in the country on Oct. 4.

Belarusian Su-24 Fencer at Radom AS 2009
By Bartek Kozłowiec (Own work) [GFDL or CC BY-SA 4.0-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Organizers of the protest said the move would turn the former Soviet republic into a Kremlin “vassal.”

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