Cover harvests not protests: Belarus leader threatens to expel foreign journalists
MINSK (Reuters) - Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko on Thursday threatened to expel foreign journalists whom he accused of inciting protests against him ahead of an August election, urging them to focus on the harvest instead.
The 65-year-old former Soviet collective farm boss faces the biggest challenge in years to his iron-fisted rule of the eastern European country, as anger swells over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, the economy and human rights.
Two of his main election rivals have been jailed and another disqualified from standing against him at the Aug. 9 election, prompting the opposition to rally around the wife of one of the candidates standing in her husband's place.
"They are calling for riots. Why do you tolerate this?" Lukashenko said at a government meeting, accusing the media of organising the protests and hurling "insult after insult".
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Sounds like Trump
