The latest stop on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s charm offensive is the former Soviet outpost of Belarus, a state often described as “Europe’s last dictatorship.”The Trudeau government announced that they would be following the lead of America and Europe by dropping the eastern European state from its main sanctions list, meaning that the flow of goods will be able to begin again immediately.The sanctions have been in place for nearly a decade, since the rise of authoritarian president Alexander Lukashenko.A statement from Global Affairs Canada reads that the decision “reflects Canada’s acknowledgment that the Government of Belarus has made …read more
Source: VICE News
