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7 August 2018



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What Lukashenko learned from Crimea
Belarusian President Aleksander Lukashenko is still coming to terms with what Russia’s intervention in Ukraine means for his own autocratic rule. Recent events in Armenia show that his overthrow might not occur on the back of Russian tanks, but via a hybridized “color” revolution capitalizing on social discontent. Lukashenko has ...

Dr. Pawel Kowal
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who once cherished ambitions of becoming the head of the Union of Russia and Belarus, sees today that Moscow treats Minsk as the capital of a peripheral state on the imperial fringe.
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