Candy Cane Revolution

Elections in Belarus are turning out like a comic take on the Orange Revolution in the Ukraine. Aleksandr Lukashenko, the country's president with a dictatorial stance and even more dictatorial ambitions, won at the latest polls.

Quite unsurprisingly, given the level of control he has over the country's political processes. People started protesting (yet instead of orange flags, that became symbolic after Ukraine's elections, these striped banners are en vogue). International observers confirmed that elections are not legitimate, but decided not to do anything.

The reaction of the Russian government, which supports Lukashenko, was also unsurprising: "It happened already, just let it go".