Belarus: Lukashenko, invested for his sixth term in an unannounced ceremony

The President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, was invested for his sixth term as head of the former Soviet republic in a ceremony that was not announced in advance, reported the official Belarusian agency BELTA. The ceremony took place in the Palace of Independence in Minsk and was attended by parliamentarians and other authorities of the country. Secret inauguration ceremony for Lukashenko According to official figures, Lukashenko was re-elected with 80.1 percent of the votes in the elections of 9 August, a result that is not recognised by the opposition or the West and has sparked the biggest wave of protests in Belarus’s post-Soviet history….