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But liberalisation cannot be allowed, because it would be the end of Lukashenko.

It was the subject of acrimonious debate among EU foreign ministers in Brussels on Monday February 27.The hotel is at the centre of a row about putting pressure on the regime of Europe's last dictator, Alyaksandr Lukashenka (to give his name its Belarusian spelling: transcribed from Russian it would be Aleksandr Lukashenko).

Even the food, shrouded in gelatine, mayonnaise and dill, recalls the canteens and mess-halls of an earlier age.Alexander Lukashenko, the mustachioed strongman who has ruled for over 20 years, will undoubtedly win a fifth term in November's presidential election.

Lukashenko has toed a delicate line over the years, trying to assert his nation's independence of Russia while conscious of the power that Vladimir Putin holds over him.

Lukashenko won a free and fair presidential election in 1994 after campaigning as a political outsider with an anti-corruption agenda, but once in charge he steadily consolidated his authority, changing the constitution to extend his term in power.

In August Lukashenko – Europe's last dictator in the words of former US secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice – suggested Sannikov would soon be rearrested.

He is convinced that given a chance a post-Lukashenko Belarus could rejoin the western mainstream, and become a thriving European state.

Shushkevich ran against Alexander Lukashenko in the 1994 elections in Belarus.

Since taking power in 1994, the country's hardline president, Alexander Lukashenko, had maintained an iron grip on power.

Irina Khalip, left, an award-winning investigative journalist, was detained with her husband, Andrei Sannikov, following a demonstration against the re-election of the veteran hardline president, Alexander Lukashenko.

The autocratic president Alexander Lukashenko, in power for the past 17 years, was re-elected in December 2010 with 80% of the vote, after a disputed poll.