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Lead:  In 2020, Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk, whom the press calls "Putin's crony," doubled his "stash" in a Belarusian bank owned by businessman Mikalai Varabey, Lukashenka's associate. Euroradio has studied Medvedchuk's tax return for 2020. While in 2019, he and his wife kept about 4.8 million euros in the Belarusian Absolut Bank, in 2020, they declared more than 9.5 million euros. Most of these funds are registered in the name of Medvedchuk's wife, Oksana Marchenko. Medvedchuk has long cooperated with oligarchs who are friends with the Belarusian authorities, most notably Mika...

Avakov says independent Ukraine is nonsense to Putin / Photo from mvs.gov.ua Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov says an independent Ukraine is nonsense to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Avakov recalled that late in 2019, when a Ukrainian delegation was going to the Normandy Four summit in Paris, he anticipated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky would unlikely come to an agreement with his Russian counterpart. "He is a critical thinker and he saw it was impossible. And if earlier it was a kind of tactics of his behavior, now his behavior is based on his principles. I hope so," Ava...