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Kazulin speaks to crowds in March: the charismatic activist was once a Lukashenko loyalist in the university system (Photo: Andrew Rettman)

EU to extend Belarus visa ban list

The EU plans to add up to four names to its list of Belarus officials banned from entering the bloc in response to the jailing for five and a half years of opposition leader Aleksander Kazulin.

"There is a discussion on adding some names of those officials most directly involved in the trial, but it is 90 percent sure that it will happen," an EU official told EUobserver on Thursday (21 September).

The final decision will be made at EU ambassador level "a few weeks from now" the ...

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

Kazulin speaks to crowds in March: the charismatic activist was once a Lukashenko loyalist in the university system (Photo: Andrew Rettman)

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

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