Twice in the past few days, the embattled President of Belarus, Mr Alexander Lukashenko, reached out to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to step in as election unrest spread in the former Soviet state.
In both conversations, the autocrat from Minsk did not hear what he wanted - an unconditional pledge of support from Moscow.
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