Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has not been seen in public for almost a week and was absent from a ceremony in the capital Minsk on Sunday, fuelling speculation he is ill.
last week, skipping parts of the commemoration that marks Russia's victory over Nazi Germany in the Second World War.Russia holds 'scaled back' Victory Day parade
He left Red Square in a buggy for the wreath-laying ceremony as other CIS country leaders accompanied Russia's president Vladimir Putin by foot to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. On his return to Minsk, Mr Lukashenko attended another wreath-laying ceremony there, but for the first time in his long presidency did not give a Victory Day address.Commenting on the rumours about Mr Lukashenko's health, the leader of the Belarusian opposition in exile, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, tweeted that Belarusians"should be well prepared for any scenario... To turn Belarus on the path to democracy and to prevent Russia from interfering".
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