Aliaksandr Lukashenko remains in power one year after stealing the August 9, 2020 election. After 12 months of brutality — the jails so full of citizens that the regime had nowhere to put its prisoners — complete with a hijack and attempted Olympic kidnapping, it is clear that the Belarusian government is determined to hold onto power.
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Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya speaks during a press conference with Lithuania's Minister of Foreign Affairs (unseen) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vilnius, Lithuania, on August. 9, 2021.
