Belarus has been making headlines throughout the past month as pro-democracy protests rock the country amid demands for an end to Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s 26-year dictatorship. This political crisis is also helping to fuel a currency crisis. In the space of one month, Belarus’s freely floating exchange rate has slumped by eight percent.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) meets with his Belarus' counterpart Alexander Lukashenko in Sochi on Feb. 13, 2019.
