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Interview: Belarus Lukashenko: “Our interest in our relationship with the European Union is beyond doubt.”

They call him Europe’s last dictator. With Europe’s increasing dependency on Russian energy forcing a thaw in relations with transit nation Belarus, euronews travelled to Minsk to speak to its president, Alexander Lukashenko. One of the last post-Soviet leaders, Lukashenko has been at the head of Belaurs for nearly 15 years. He talks to euronews about the global financial crisis, trade with his European and Russian neighbours, gas transit and democracy.

Euronews | February 9, 2009Watch more videos from Euronews

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