“Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Saturday he wanted to speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin, warning street protests were not just a threat to Belarus” Reuters reports.
“Mass unrest followed Lukashenko’s re-election victory last week, as tens of thousands of people took to the streets accusing him of rigging the vote. ‘There is a need to contact Putin so that I can talk to him now, because it is not a threat to just Belarus anymore,’ he said, according to state news agency Belta.”