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Belarus opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya (pictured) will meet US Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun in Lithuania today (24 August) as part of efforts to defuse the crisis over disputed elections, her team told Reuters,writes Andrius Sytas.

The No. 2 US diplomat will stop over in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius en route to Moscow as Washington seeks a peaceful resolution to the crisis that would avert Russian intervention.

In the biggest challenge to Lukashenko’s 26 years in power, people have taken to the streets in many Belarusian towns, including in its capital Minsk, for nearly two weeks, protesting against the result of an Aug. 9 election that they say was rigged to hand the president re-election.

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