Hosting hockey world cup looks difficult due to protests

Instability at Belarus can be a problem for the World Hockey hosts.Belarus is scheduled to co-host the world championships with Latvia in May and June, but the opposition in the country has called for a boycott and the Latvian government has said it wants Belarus to be replaced.

At his meeting with Rene Fasel, Alexander Lukashenko. (Belarus President) embraced his guest and also offered to host the entire tournament without Latvia and said it would be "the best world championship in history.

Mass protests swept Belarus, a former Soviet nation of 9.5 million people, after official results from the presidential election on Aug. 9 gave Lukashenko a landslide victory over his widely popular opponent, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya