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  • Matthew Chance
    Senior International Correspondent

    Matthew Chance is CNN's senior international correspondent based in Moscow. He has reported extensively on major stories for CNN's global news networks from the Middle East, Afghanistan, Russia and Chechnya, Europe and the Far East.

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  • FILE In this file photo taken from video released by Belarusian KGB, State TV and Radio Company of Belarus on Wednesday, July 29, 2020, Belarusian KGB officers detain Russian men in a sanitarium outside in Minsk, Belarus. In what the opposition and many independent observers saw as Lukashenko's attempt to shore up sagging public support, Belarusian authorities arrested 33 Russian military contractors and charged them with plans to stage "mass riots. Belarus' authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko faces a perfect storm as he seeks a sixth term in the election held Sunday, Aug. 9, 2020 after 26 years in office. (Belarusian KGB, State TV and Radio Company of Belarus via AP, File)

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