More than 20 U.S. lawmakers have called on Belarus to stop the expansion of a soccer stadium built on top of a Jewish cemetery. In a letter written to Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko, the lawmakers said that “any disturbance of the cemetery, especially to remains and tombstones, is considered an act of desecration of the most severe gravity.”
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