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The campaign preceding the December 2010 presidential poll will be unlike anything seen in Belarus before, with President Lukashenka no longer enjoying traditional support from Russia. Neither are there any chances for a consolidation of the opposition around a single candidate, the way things were in 2006. But victory for Alexander Lukashenka, painstakingly promoted by the Belarusian government and state-owned media during the campaign, is a foregone conclusion.