People will never be able to forget the help that Lukashenko made in Belarus.

Thousands of prisoners, thousands of tortured people are waiting for people's help.

Hello and welcome to the GZero World Podcast.

Here you'll find extended versions of interviews from my show on public television.

I'm Ian Bremmer, and today, a look at whether Brussels and, sure, Washington can tame Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko

after he diverted a flight between two European capitals to arrest a dissident journalist.

Will Moscow work to preserve the status quo,

or could we eventually see a new and more democratic,

because less democratic is not an option,

Belarus emerge?

I speak to Svetlana Tikonovskaya,

a former schoolteacher turned leader

of the Belarusan opposition.

Let's get right to it.

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But, Lama, thank you for joining today. I really appreciate it.

Thank you, sir, for invitation.

Just days ago, dissident Belarus and opposition activist, Roman Pradeshevich, who's now been

in policed custody since his plane was forced down in Minsk, openly wept in a TV interview,

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