Next door to Ukraine, will Putin’s other invasion also unravel?
The Russian leader has pulled off a “soft annexation” of Belarus. But the war might yet unexpectedly loosen his leash on Minsk’s dictator Alexander Lukashenko.
London | As Russian President Vladimir Putin attempts to pound Ukraine into subjugation and transform it into a satellite state, there is another neighbouring country that has come under his yoke much more quietly: Belarus.
There was a time when Belarus’s president of almost 30 years, Alexander Lukashenko, tried to play the West and Russia off against each other, making overtures to each under the guise of his country’s constitutional neutrality.
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Hans van Leeuwen is The Australian Financial Review’s former Europe correspondent. He is now International Economy editor for The Telegraph UK.
