Belarus’s political crisis involves four principal actors. Two of them are domestic: the political regime, headed by President Alexander Lukashenko, and the protest movement, whose leaders are currently in Lithuanian, Polish and Latvian exile. Two more actors are external: Russia and the collective West. At least three actors out of those four evince a high level of anxiety, to the point of losing self-control and engaging in behaviors counterproductive to their own goals.
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Grigory Ioffe: Going over the top in and around Belarus
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko waves as he greets Russian President before their meeting in Sochi on Feb. 22, 2021.
