Rumours of the demise of Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko were swirling just over a month ago, when he cut short an appearance in Moscow and was reportedly rushed to hospital.
His statesmanship had been roundly derided since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year — in which Belarus served as a launch pad — and after he was forced to appeal to Vladimir Putin in 2020 to help his crackdown on protests challenging his fraudulent re-election.
But the 68-year-old made an unlikely comeback last weekend, when he brokered a truce in Russia and offered a haven to the warlord marching on Moscow, Yevgeny Prigozhin.
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