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Him so lukashenko will certainly do this. and what does this _ certainly do this. and what does this say _ certainly do this. and what does this say about - certainly do this. and what does this say about the - does this say about the relationship between vladimir putin and lukashenko and also belaruss role in this war? it had previously been used as a staging post at various points. do you think we could see that happening again? {iii do you think we could see that happening again?— happening...

We of course feared he would push further into the east, that he would try to take a city like mauriopl in order to create a lands bridge to crimea, but this kind of all out assault on the entire country honestly wasnt something we believed at that time would happen. but in terms of what changed, i do believe were probably looking at three things. one of them is what happened in belarus, the sustained protests, how close belarus came to actually getting rid of l lukashenko, a dictator whos the o...

Last sundays ryan air flight 4978 started out as just another trip from athens, greece, to lithuania and but it was a pawn in an international incident after a security alert caused it to land in belarus. once on the ground it was boarded by those who arrested roman protosevich and the thorn in the side of belarus president l lukashenko and it was widely and strongly condemned by western nations. let me bring in hannah luibok

A feeling that we as a nation for the first time are united in saying what we want and what we want is to be a democracy and to elect our own president. lukashenko manage totd stay in power. he lived through the crisis. partly because he escalated the level of violence that he had been using. and partly because he got support from russia. and so he was offered this hand of friendship from putin and that was clearly what prevented him from leaving the country and what made him decide to stay in p...

Information and condition of real ax biguity. it is like battlefield command. and she just sensed that the institution had lost its nerve. >> you had this amazing moment where you described how george w. bush reads john berrys book about the spanish influenza, and he decides that in fact the u.s. has exactly as you say a very bad national public health administration and he tries to reorganize it. does it work? >> it does work. i mean, it is an amazing story, that bush, you have a traumatized pr...

Position leaders, opposition movements when theyre abroad. lukashenko said this in recent days, weve eyes everywhere. you cant escape even if you leave the country? >> yes, absolutely. it is not just russia, actually. the whole phenomenon of what summer are called transnational repression is something that is growing rapidly. we have examples of russians trying to assassinate in some cases successfully their russian citizens in england, in germany, we have examples of the chinese kidnapping thei...

Afterva and ann aiple balm where they published a piece on the incident titled other regimes will hijack planes too. it is a must-read. and explain this to us in historical consequence, the last time we heard that lucashenko, and theres with massive protests and government supported the protests, he seemed flailing and now this. explain. >> so, yes, youre absolutely right. lukashenko last summer seemed to be close to resignation, leaving this job. the entire country had turned against him and re...

Channel, it is a social media network that protested belarus in the very popular in the country and in november of last year he was added to the kgb terrorist list by the kgb which is the security service agency in belarus which only shows that he is kind of -- lukashenko considers him a personal enemy because hes a blogger and who spreads information and informed citis inside and out of the country about what is happening in the country. but because lukashenko is so scared of information that i...

Prison. this is a very, very brutal regime now. and the fact that they were willing to hijack this plane shows that the degrees to which they are willing to defy the rule of law in the country but also around the world. >> and hannah, explain this 26-year-old journalist, who is he and why is lukashenko so afraid or enrai -- enraged by h. tell us about him. >> so it has become a journalist in a very young age. he basically got involved in all of these political activities. hes very brave. hes ver...

Views about are there opposition people who exist. >> and i know that lukashenko seemed to invoke a defense of russia saying that we are training range a testing site for them ahead of the march to the east after testing on us, they will go there. implying that they would ultimately set their sites on moscow. what do you make of those words and how are they likely to play out with bebelarus patron in moscow? >> llukashenkos patron will support him. and these statements are more direct because th...