MINSK (Reuters) - Flags flew at half-mast and TV and radio channels dropped entertainment programmes in Belarus on Wednesday in mourning for Venezuela's Hugo Chavez whose anti-U.S. policies made him a natural ally for hardline President Alexander Lukashenko.
Lukashenko, himself an outcast in the West because of his clampdown on the opposition at home, ordered three days of mourning, describing Chavez in a fulsome tribute as "a close and reliable friend, our brother".
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