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Activists clear on #NoRussianBaseInBelarus

Protesters voice anger over a proposed plan to construct a Russian air base on Belarusian soil.

Opposition activists in Belarus took to the streets on Sunday in protest of the planned construction of a Russian military air base. About a thousand protesters gathered in the center of Minsk, the former Soviet nation’s capital, chanting “Russia go home” and waving signs reading “no Russian military bases in Belarus.”