CER podcast: Political repression in Belarus and what the West can do about it

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🗓️ 28 May 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Political repression in Belarus has been evident for many years, with opposition leaders disappearing in the late 1990s and many other government critics being persecuted or detained since then; the brutal suppression of popular protests last summer after President Alexander Lukashenko's improbable re-election; and most recently, the forced diversion and landing of a plane travelling from Athens to Vilnius, which carried the Belarusian journalist and telegram blogger Roman Protasevich and his girlfriend, who have subsequently been arrested. In this week's CER podcast, our director of foreign policy, Ian Bond, speaks to Katia Glod, non-resident fellow at Washington's Centre for European Analysis, about the latest wave of repression and what the West can do to help. Music by Edward Hipkins Produced by Rosie Giorgi

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0:27.6	Hello and welcome to the latest CR podcast. I'm Ian Bond, the Director of Foreign Policy at the CER.
0:34.6	And it's my great pleasure today to have as my guest, Katia Glawd, who's a non-resident fellow at the CER. And it's my great pleasure today to have as my guest, Katya Glaude, who's a non-resident
0:40.7	fellow at the Centre for European Policy Analysis, a think tank in Washington, and also a native
0:47.6	of Minsk. And there's quite a lot to discuss about Belarus today. So I've been following events in Belarus on and off since I
0:56.3	first visited in 1992, not long after Belarus gained its independence after the breakup of the
1:03.9	Soviet Union. And I have to say, I've seen a lot of bad things happen in that time. We had the
1:09.8	disappearance of several opposition leaders in the late
1:12.4	1990s and the imprisonment and persecution of many others, including presidential candidates,
1:19.5	in the decades after that. And last year we had the extraordinarily brutal suppression of protests
1:26.0	against Alexander Lukashenko's latest improbable
1:30.8	election victory in which some protesters were killed and many people were tortured.
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