The Fight for Belarus

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🗓️ 26 August 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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For the past two weeks, Belarus has been gripped by political protest. The country’s longtime authoritarian president, Alexander Lukashenko, is courting Russian intervention as a worried European Union looks on. Guest: Julia Ioffe, GQ correspondent. Read her latest column on Belarus. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:37.9	For the past couple of weeks,
0:39.5	the Eastern European country of Belarus has been gripped by political protest.
0:47.3	People filled the capital city's plazas
0:49.9	to reject the August 9th re-election of Belarus's longtime president,
0:54.3	Alexander Lukashenko.
0:56.4	The EU has called that election a sham.
1:03.6	In this video, a middle-aged woman says,
1:06.2	I came out here because of the injustice, the endless lies.
1:14.1	Police and security forces have been rounding up protesters,
1:17.6	beating them, stuffing them into overcrowded holding cells.
1:24.3	The harrowing audiophiles of the sounds of torture
1:27.3	coming from the accristen of prison
1:29.3	shared across the nation, soundtrack to its trauma.
1:35.4	State TV showed Lukashenko surveying the protests
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