Alexander Lukashenko’s 27 years in power in Belarus have been marked by murder, brutality, and repression. Most of the international community deems him illegitimate, especially after his efforts to steal last August’s presidential election. Now Lukashenko, the head of Europe’s last dictatorship, has written a new chapter in the authoritarians’ playbook titled “State-Sponsored Air Piracy and Hijacking.”
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David Kramer, Eric Edelman: Lukashenko’s threat to the international order
Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko disembarks from a plane as he arrives at an airport in Sochi on Sept. 14, 2020.
