Belarus: President Allegedly Approved Foreign Assassinations in 2012

Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko allegedly authorized political killings abroad in 2012, according to an audio recording obtained and published by EUobserver on Jan. 4. The attacks never took place, but the recording purports to reveal the then-chairman of Belarus' intelligence service, Vadim Zaitsev, briefing members of a special task force about killing three opposition leaders living in exile in Germany and a journalist living in Russia....