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Gitanas Nausėda: Will people power take Belarus in a new direction?

Gitanas Nausėda: Will people power take Belarus in a new direction?

The Lithuanian president discusses the geopolitics at play in neighbouring Belarus

The Interview · BBC World Service

September 11, 202024m 4s

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Show Notes

Will Moscow’s will prevail in Belarus, or will people power take the country in a new direction? Stephen Sackur speaks to Gitanas Nausėda, the president of neighbouring Lithuania. The daily street protests demanding the resignation of Belarus’s authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko haven’t yet tipped the balance against the regime. Lukashenko is still there; the security forces are still doing his bidding. So how is the geopolitics of this going to play out?