BELARUSSIAN POLICEMAN COUNTS CONFISCATED SOFT CHEESE.
FOR RELEASE WITH FEATURE BC-BELARUS-RUSSIA-SHOPPING - A Belarussian policeman counts packs of soft cheese, confiscated from a trader on the railway station in the city of Orsha, 240 kms north-east of the capital Minsk. Transport of goods out of Belarus, always frowned upon, was outlawed earlier this month by decree of Belarus's authoritarian president Alexander Lukashenko. Picture taken 8SEP98.
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