Belarus has announced that the next presidential election will be held on August 9 as the country’s authoritarian President Alyaksandr Lukashenko sought to play down the risks of the coronavirus pandemic.
RFE/RL: Belarus to hold presidential election despite pandemic
A nurse wearing a face mask walks in the yard of a hospital not far from a monument to the founder of the Soviet Union Vladimir Lenin in Minsk on April 22, 2020.
