UK companies face pressure over links to Belarus regime

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The role of UK companies in allegedly helping to prop up Europe's so-called last dictatorship" is coming under unprecedented pressure amid signs that lobbying by Belarusian exiles and others is paying off.

Rolls-Royce and British American Tobacco are among the firms that have responded to lobbying by the Belarusian diaspora and indicated they were willing to take action.