The EU should slap sanctions on Belarus arms exporters in response to Minsk's post-election crackdown, according to Belarusian sociologist Oleg Manaev.
"This is about the weapons trade. Most of the income that Belarusian authorities get from this trade does not go to the state budget. It goes to the special presidential fund," he told EUobserver.
Arms sanctions would be hard for president Alexander Lukashenko to "repackage" as an attack on ordinary people and could sow disunity i...
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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.