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Belarus President Lukashenko orders striking factories to be shut from Monday

Minsk, Aug 22 (Sputnik) President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko on Saturday gave an instruction to close striking factories starting from Monday.
"I ask governors and chairmen of executive committees: if someone does not want to work, do not force them. Do not do this. We still will not be able to force them and will not persuade them. The country will survive this. But if the enterprise does not work, we will put the lock on the gate on Monday. People will calm down. We will figure out whom to invite to work to this enterprise later," Lukashenko said at a supporters' rally in Grodno.
On Friday, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the main Belarusian presidential contender from the opposition, urged the country's workers in a new video address to keep demanding a new presidential election through continued strikes and rallies. However, despite reports about mass strikes, Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko said on Thursday that all of the country’s industrial facilities and state-owned enterprises were functioning as normal, notwithstanding what he described as staged protests. According to the official, the turnout at the protests at such facilities was disproportionately lower than the size of their workforce.
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