PARIS — France says its ambassador to Belarus has been ordered out of the country amid growing tensions between Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko and the West.
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Members of the Belarusian diaspora in Ukraine, and activists gathered on Maidsn Nezhalezhnosti Square after the rally in Kyiv on August 8, 2021. The rally marks the first anniversary of anti-Lukashenko protests which began after suspected vote-rigging in the 2020 Belarus presidential election.
