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Belarus expels Swedish ambassador following 'teddy bear stunt'

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Belarus has expelled Sweden's ambassador over actions to support democracy, Sweden's Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said on Friday.

 

A plane chartered by a Swedish public relations firm dropped hundreds of teddy bears over Belarus on July 4 in a pro-democracy stunt, prompting President Alexander Lukashenko to sack his air defence chief and the head of the border guards. (Reuters)

 

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