Embattled Belarusian leader holds secret inauguration

On his own. Heh.

Even tziny Putin was to tiny to attend.

I bet it’ll be ‘yuge’! The biggest crowds ever.

Big desk, tiny man.

Belarus is an interesting country. Unlike Russia and Ukraine, there are no billionaire oligarchs in Belarus since the state-owned industries were never privatised after the breakup of the Soviet Union. Belarus is basically still a socialist state. Most people (myself included) are surprised to learn that Belarussians actually have higher median incomes and better living standards than any of their former Soviet counterparts which joined the EU in 2004 (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia).

Trump can do this if he lose at 3 Nov.!

Good for Belorussia not to fall in the same chaos and desperation the hapless Ukraine is now, after the Western-orchestrated coup d'eta in 2014.

@M3M3M3

Belarussians actually have higher median incomes and better living standards than any of their former Soviet counterparts which joined the EU in 2004 (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia)

You nailed it. EU destroyed all industrial production in these countries, giving them handouts in the form of subsidies instead. When the program of subsidies ends in the nearest future these countries will be dead, with no means of support left. Unlike Belorussia, which kept its industries intact (to the greatest disappointment of Western companies, who hoped to plunder it the same way they plundered ex-Soviet satellites and Ukraine).