A Belarusian court has convicted 12 people, most of them in absentia, and sentenced them to prison terms of up to 25 years for an attack on an airfield that damaged a Russian military radar plane.
When President Nicolás Maduro took to the stage on 4 February this year to mark the anniversary of the failed 1992 coup led by his mentor, Hugo Chávez, his rhetoric was always going to be fiery.