Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko's hosting of Ukraine peace talks may have a side effect at home - helping thaw relations between the European Union and a man the West calls "Europe's last dictator".
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Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko (R) welcomes his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko at the presidential residence in Minsk on Feb. 11, 2015.