Trump envoy credits colorful rhetoric and vodka shots in helping him build bond with Belarus leader

Federaţia Rusă

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s special envoy to Belarus recently revealed that he helped ingratiate himself with the country’s autocratic leader by echoing Alexander Lukashenko’s disdain for Europe with vulgar language and by negotiating his way through a boozy lunch during their first meeting. The envoy, John Coale, who has been charged with working to win the release of hundreds of political prisoners from the East European country, said State Department officials advised him

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