This is a nation that

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a I am the world. I'm John Batcheler.

Belarus, White Russia.

Belarus is a nation that understood its role in the Soviet Union, but then everything fell

apart suddenly at the end of 1991.

And what is to be done?

Belarus became an independent nation.

It is now independent accept.

And I welcome Ekaterina Zolotova,

writing for geopolitical future.

She is in Moscow Moscow and the relationship between Minsk, the capital

of Belarus and Moscow is storied, that would be the general way to say it, storied, especially

now during the conflict in Ukraine.

A very good evening to you of Katarina. We begin with the story of Lukashenko's Belarus.

I know it best from the summer of 2020

when there was an election in Belarus

and there were protests about the election being far from fair, free and fair.

There were protests here in New York and I realized for the first time that there was a Belarusian

diaspora in New York City.

They shut up with their baby carriages.

They have big shoulders, the men have big shoulders,

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