I recently welcomed a group of colleagues from Belarus to the editorial offices of NV magazine in Kyiv. They had all been forced to leave their country over the past year since Aleksandr Lukashenko launched an unprecedented campaign of repression in response to mass protests over the flawed August 2020 Belarusian presidential election.
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An opposition supporter brandishes a former white-red-white flags of Belarus as people parade through the streets in Minsk, on October 25, 2020, on the final day of an ultimatum set by the opposition for their embattled strongman leader to resign after months of mass protests.
