{"id":12156,"date":"2025-08-09T00:21:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T00:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/lukashenko-signals-end-to-his-authoritarian-run-in-belarus\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T00:21:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T00:21:29","slug":"lukashenko-signals-end-to-his-authoritarian-run-in-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/lukashenko-signals-end-to-his-authoritarian-run-in-belarus\/","title":{"rendered":"Lukashenko signals end to his authoritarian run in Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After ruling the country for three decades, Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko told Time&nbsp;in an interview that he would not seek another term.&nbsp; Lukashenko, Russian President Vladimir Putin&rsquo;s right hand in Europe, has been in power since 1994 and was sworn in for his seventh term in March&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/5443919-belarus-lukashenko-final-term\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After ruling the country for three decades, Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko told Time&nbsp;in an interview that he would not seek another term.&nbsp; Lukashenko, Russian President Vladimir Putin&rsquo;s right hand in Europe, has been in power since 1994 and was sworn in for his seventh term in March&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}