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Belarus, explained: How Europe's last dictator could fall

  • Written by Tatsiana Kulakevich, Lecturer and Research Fellow at USF Institute on Russia, University of South Florida
imageDeploying riot police to suppress peaceful pro-democracy demonstrators in Belarus turned more people against the country's autocratic leader. AP Photo/Sergei Grits, File

Belarus’s President Alexander Lukashenko has a reputation as a master tactician. It is well-earned: Since 1994, he has balanced the former Soviet state’s relations with...

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