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Dictatorland: Belarus

  • December 26, 2018
  • PONARS Eurasia
(BBC) In this episode, Ben Zand travels to Belarus to experience the sinister and at times bizarre side to living in a dictatorship. Ben begins his journey in Belarus by…

Inside Belarus, Europe’s Last Dictatorship

  • August 9, 2017
  • PONARS Eurasia
(VICE) In October of last year, Alexander Lukashenko swept to his fifth term as the Belarusian president, marking 22 years in power. Despite the elections being marred by allegations of…

A Belarusian Spring l People & Power

  • June 1, 2017
  • PONARS Eurasia
(AL JAZEERA) For more than two decades, with the sustained if sometimes lukewarm backing of neighbouring Russia, Alexander Lukashenko has governed the Republic of Belarus with an iron fist –…

Belarus: Europe’s Last Dictatorship

  • January 20, 2016
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(AL JAZEERA ENGLISH) In October 2015 a presidential election was held in Belarus. It wasn’t a convincing contest and few thought that victory would go to anyone other than the…

Do Belarusians Finally Reclaim Their Own Language? Hope to Resuscitate National Identity as a Whole

  • October 18, 2015
  • PONARS Eurasia
(UKRAINE TODAY) We’re on our way to a secret location just outside the Belarus capital Minsk. In this nondescript small-storey building is a makeshift school where all the classes are…

Belarus: Undercover in Europe’s Last Dictatorship

  • May 22, 2014
  • PONARS Eurasia
(CHANNEL 4 NEWS UK) Belarus border guards order Jonathan Rugman out of the country, but our resourceful Channel 4 News cameraman slips past them for a much-needed glimpse of Europe’s most…

Merchants of War – Belarus

  • July 1, 2006
  • PONARS Eurasia
(JOURNEYMAN PICTURES) Is Russia using Belarus as a proxy agent to sell weapons to regimes like Iran or North Korea? Reports are emerging which paint a disturbing picture. For more…

The Iron Fist Returns: Belarus

  • August 1, 1998
  • PONARS Eurasia
(JOURNEYMAN PICTURES) The end of the Soviet Union was supposed to end mindless suppression, but in Belarus, some say Stalin’s ghost is rising. After 4 years of increasingly dictatorial rule,…
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