FIGHT FOR FREEDOM - BELARUS


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Sep 01 2020 15 mins   10
Alexander Lukashenko struggles to cling to power after he lost fraudulent and fake elections. He's jailed and tortured political opponents. Some have fled the Country. Others take to the streets weekly now in massive demonstrations demanding Lukashenko step down. While Russia's Putin worries the same could happen in Russia, keeps watch and threatens to intervene to prop up Lukashenko. In this edition of BACK STORY Host Dana Lewis talks to Belarus journalist Hanna Liubakova, of the dangers of covering the demonstrations and what will become of Lukashenko?