SCW NEWSWATCH: "After Weeks of Pressure in Belarus, Protesters and Lukashenko Locked in Dangerous Stalemate; More than 100,000 people protest; country's longtime leader set to meet Putin on Monday" - Wall Street Journal/ Thomas Grove

"More than 100,000 ... poured into the streets of ... Minsk [Sunday], sparking a show of force and mass detentions by riot police[,] ... one of the largest in a string of demonstrations aimed at keeping pressure on ... Lukashenko[] [i]n the month since [an election] maintain[ing] ... [his] hold on the presidency ... [that] his critics say was neither free nor fair .... [W]ith no new victories for either side, both are in a stalemate ... that could erupt in violence and may increase the prospect that Russia could intervene .... Of the uprisings ... shak[ing] ... the former Soviet Union over the decades, few have been as big as the demonstrations in Minsk .... [Lukashenko] has accumulated enormous power ... over 26 years ... [and now] his security services have worked to halt [opposition] momentum ... through violence, detentions and forced exile. ..."

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