Colonel beats major
IT IS a fair bet that most of the time Russia's busy president, Vladimir Putin, has better things to do than worry about his mercurial opposite number in Belarus, Alexander Lukashenka. But the signs are that, when he does, he gets cross.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Colonel beats major”
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