Defiance in Belarus tests limits of 26-year rule

Professor Andrew Wilson (UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies) describes Belarusian president Lukashenko as promoting himself as a man of the people with outdated views toward women, which was challenged by the popular political contender Svetlana Tikhanovskaya.

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