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"Welcome to Belarus, the centre of Europe!" giggles a young blonde waitress at Boulevard, a sleek café recently opened on the site of a former dingy vodka bolthole on Independence Street, the broad avenue of imposing Stalinist buildings that slices through central Minsk.
Photographer: Will Webster Writer: Shaun Walker
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