Pressure mounts on Alexander Lukashenko to go as protests threaten to spill beyond Belarus’s borders
The Belarusian president, Alexander Lukashenko, and the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, have expressed confidence that all problems that had arisen in Belarus would soon be resolved, the Kremlin said.
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