Belarus ’Dictatorship’ Fines Five After 100-Car Blockade
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Belarus fined five people for staging a car blockade in the capital, Minsk, after gasoline prices jumped, the first show of public dissent since demonstrators were jailed for protesting the results of last year’s elections.
President Alexander Lukashenko today ordered that maximum gasoline prices be restored to their original levels after they were increased by an average of 31 percent yesterday.