MOSCOW, 23 March 23 —Two of the European Union's newest members are less democratic than the much-criticized Belarus, a prominent Russian political scientist said Thursday.
Sergei Markov, the head of the Moscow-based Institute for Political Studies, criticized Belarus' former Soviet stable mates, Latvia and Estonia, which joined the EU in 2004, for effectively disenfranchising a quarter of their population and weighed into the debate about whether sanctions should be levied against Minsk following the incumbent leader's disputed recent landslide reelection.
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