Washington Post: A chance to deal Belarus’s dictator a blow
FOR YEARS, Western governments have chafed at the presence of a repressive dictatorship in the center of Europe — the former Soviet republic of Belarus, ruled with a mixture of brutality and megalomania by Alexander Lukashenko. Now a spectacular series of missteps by the strongman has put him in perhaps the tightest fix of his 17 years in power — and given the United States and its European allies an opportunity they should not fail to exploit. Read the story here.