Tag: Alexander Lukashenko
Autocracy Is Winning – The Atlantic
The future of democracy may well be decided in a drab office building on the outskirts of Vilnius, alongside a highway crammed with impatient drivers heading out of town.
I met Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya there this spring, in a room that held a conference table, a whiteboard, and not much else. Her team—more than a dozen young journalists, bloggers, vloggers, and activists—was in the process of changing offices. But that wasn’t the only reason the space felt stale and perfunctory.
‘Worse than war’ — a dispatch from the Polish-Belarusian border – POLITICO
Urszula Glensk is a professor of documentary literature and literary criticism at the University of Wrocław’s Institute of Journalism and Social Communication. This piece was translated by Soren Gauger.
Hajnówka, POLAND — We’re sitting in a bright, cozy kitchen in a house on a peaceful street lined with pre-war wooden buildings in the Polish town of Hajnówka, near the border with Belarus. A young woman named Anna K. calmly relays to me what she saw in the forest — and
Belarus Manufactured a Migrant Crisis on Europe’s Doorstep
A small Kurdish boy is sitting on the ground in a damp Polish forest, a few miles from the eastern border with Belarus. The air is heavy with cold and fog. The boy is crying.
Around the boy, sitting in a circle, are his parents, uncles, and cousins, all from the same village near Dohuk, in Iraqi Kurdistan. There are 16 of them, among them seven children, including a four-month-old infant and an elderly woman who can scarcely walk. They
UK imposes fresh sanctions on Belarus one year after ‘fraudulent elections’ – POLITICO
LONDON — The U.K. has issued fresh trade, financial and aviation sanctions on Belarus, in a bid to increase pressure on the country’s leader Alexander Lukashenko.
The U.K. Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) said Monday Britain will take measures to limit the Belarusian regime’s trade on a number of goods that may be used to repress dissidents or might provide a revenue stream, such as potash, petroleum products, goods used in cigarette manufacturing and some technology devices.
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