Stalin finds favour in former Soviet republic

President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus moved further to tighten his rule in this former Soviet republic and said people were asking him to introduce a dictatorship similar to Stalin's. "People are saying: `Give us Stalin's times'," he said in a television broadcast. Having already restored Soviet symbols, he promised to revive the Soviet tradition of subbotniks - unpaid mandatory labour on weekends, mostly in street cleaning.

AP -Minsk