MSNBCW The Rachel Maddow Show August 11, 2020
Other parts of it. But on top of ukraine, between ukraine and the baltic states, is the large and still quite soviet country of belarus. Belarus did become an independent country when the soviet union collapsed in 1991. They established a new form of government. They constituted themselves as the republic of belarus. They held an election for president of that republic for the first time in 1994. In that first election in 1994, they picked this guy, alexander lukashenko, to be their first ever president. Again, they picked him in 1994. He is still there today. I say that belarus is kind of sov...