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Sunday’s protests in Orsha, Babruysk, Brest and Rahachow were the latest in an unusual wave of demonstrations that have occurred for weeks in the authoritarian country, focusing on a law that fines unemployed people $250 if they don’t register with state labor exchanges.

The latest is Mr Putin’s demand that Belarus build a Russian air base outside Babruysk, south-east of Minsk.

The new airbase in the Belarusian city of Babruysk will expand Russia’s already strong air presence in Belarus.

The Nazis burned them in Babruysk in Belarus.