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                            Social Progress in Belarus: Self-Perception versus Reality                        
                    
                 
                The Belarusian government and Western analysts tend to agree about one thing: Belarus is a social state. Belarus may not be a wealthy country, Alexander Lukashenka likes to say, but it is a state that serves ordinary people.
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