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Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanouskaya has called for ‘free and fair elections’ at her first press conference since fleeing to Lithuania in the aftermath of elections. FRANCE 24 correspondent Gulliver Cragg says the opposition leader has called on individual police to switch sides from the regime of President Alexander Lukashenko, who was controversially re-elected.

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