One of the men arrested, Alexandr Feduta, was Lukashenko´s spokesman whe he was first elected in 1994, but later joined the opposition. The other, lawyer Yuras Zyankovich, has dual Belarusian-US citizenship.

The statement said that ‘both planned to conduct a military coup in Belarus following the script of the so-called color revolutions and involving Ukrainian and local nationalists.’

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