Remember the dictator who sent military fighter jets to force a commercial flight to land so he could arrest one of his critics? That dictator was Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus and one of the world’s longest-ruling autocrats. Now, we learn, a month earlier he kidnapped an American citizen.
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Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko waves as he greets Russian President before their meeting in Sochi on Feb. 22, 2021.
