The European Union imposed asset freezes and visa bans against Belarus president Alexander Lukashenko and 157 other Belarus officials as punishment for the crackdown on the opposition during the recent elections. The US joined the move the same day. The Belarus Foreign Ministry asserted that the EU sanctions constituted “encouragement of unlawful actions and extremism from abroad” and vowed to take “proportional and adequate” countermeasures.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/belarus/8294022/US-hits-Belarus-with-new-sanctions.html
http://lenta.ru/news/2011/01/31/sanctions1/
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