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Putin hosts Lukashenko and his son on his yacht

30 May 2021
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2021-05-30 14:35

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his visiting Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko took to sea on Saturday. The presidents held an informal meeting on a yacht off the Black Sea resort of Sochi. Footage of the meeting shows the leaders talking, looking out at dolphins in the sea and being joined for lunch by Lukashenko's son, Nikolai. The Belarusian leader has faced strong international blowback this week after Belarusian authorities detained an opposition journalist in Minsk. The journalist had been traveling on an international Ryanair flight which was diverted to Minsk after an alleged bomb threat. The European Union banned flights from Belarus in response.

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