Ola Cichowlas: Belarusian opposition eyes Poland, Putin, itself
Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko (C) gestures next to Russia's President Vladimir Putin (L) and Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko as they meet in the Belarussian capital Minsk on August 26, 2014.
WARSAW, Poland - The Palace of Culture and Science, Stalin's towering gift to a war-ravaged Warsaw, was illuminated in vertical stripes of white, red, and white this summer. Few Varsovians noticed - white and red are, after all, the colors that form the Polish flag. To Belarusian activists in exile here in the Polish capital, however, it was unmistakable: the national flag that Aleksandr Lukashenko, Belarus's unchallenged leader, banned when he seized power two decades ago.
