The women of Belarus
The Europeans | European news, politics and culture
Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer
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🗓️ 16 September 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Women are kicking ass in Belarus right now, and this week we're catching up with the journalist Hanna Liubakova about why — and where the protest movement is going. We're also talking about the fire at Greece's Moria refugee camp and the mess that is Europe's refugee policy. Plus: greener energy choices in Portugal and the French film behind the #CancelNetflix hashtag.
Follow Hanna on Twitter for essential updates on Belarus: https://twitter.com/HannaLiubakova
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Europeans, the podcast about this kind of amorphous continent that we live in. |
| 0:28.5 | Where are it, Sedges? Nobody knows. I'm here, as always, with Dominic Kramer. |
| 0:33.3 | And who are you? I'm Katie. I thought you knew that. |
| 0:35.9 | All right. Arguing already. Yes, yes. And I'm speaking to |
| 0:40.5 | my friend Katie Lee from Paris, a lovely friend. How is it there in Paris? It's good. I'm currently |
| 0:47.6 | buried in mountains of paperwork. One of the things I started doing during our summer break was my |
| 0:52.7 | application for French nationality, which is very exciting. |
| 0:55.8 | That is very exciting. How long might it take? |
| 0:59.1 | Forever. I don't know. I was complaining about this to one of my neighbours the other day. And he was like, look, you're trying to become French. You need to be good at paperwork. That's what it means to be French. |
| 1:10.2 | So it's like, this is the ultimate test. The ultimate French test. So that's what it means to be French. So it's like this is the ultimate test. |
| 1:12.8 | The ultimate French test. So that's what I've been doing for the last month, being buried |
| 1:16.7 | under the weight of my own tax documents. How are you? I'm fine. Yeah, I'm pretty busy, |
| 1:22.5 | which is nice and a luxury problem right now. But yeah, it's weird. Well, we also have a very busy show |
| 1:29.4 | coming up for you this week. What's going on? Yeah, this week we are checking in with |
| 1:33.3 | Hannah Lubakova, a journalist from Minsk, who has been doing some really amazing reporting |
| 1:40.0 | about the situation in Belarus. I imagine by now, pretty much everyone listening will at least vaguely know what's been happening there |
| 1:48.0 | with this huge peaceful protest movement following the sham elections back in early August. |
| 1:54.8 | The protests are obviously still going on, and Hannah's Twitter feed has been one of my go-to resources for following the inspiring |
| 2:03.6 | and imaginative protests but also to see the terrifying, brutal, violent response from the state. |
| 2:10.8 | So we'll be speaking to Hannah a bit later in the show to have a look in more detail about |
| 2:15.9 | what's happening there. But for now, it's time for |
| 2:18.7 | for who's had a good week, Dominic? I'm going to give Good Week to Portugal this week after they |
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