On 25 February 2024, Belarus held its first nationwide election since the 2020 Presidential election. Widely considered fraudulent, the 2020 re-election of Alexander Lukashenko was met with large-scale protests across Belarussian cities. Since August 2020, Lukashenko has embarked on a political crackdown, detaining 35,000 protestors and driving 500,000 Belarussians into exile. [source] Moscow’s financial and…