Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei speaks during a meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow, Russia September 2, 2020. Russian Foreign Ministry/Handout via REUTERS
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Belarus will impose travel bans on senior officials in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia in retaliation for measures targeting its own officials, the foreign minister said on Wednesday, as Russia stepped up support for the Belarusian government.
More than three weeks after a political crisis erupted in Belarus over allegations of vote rigging in a presidential election which incumbent Alexander Lukashenko said he had won, Minsk and close ally Moscow are pushing back hard against Lukashenko's domestic and foreign critics.
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