Day: February 25, 2022

Is Aleksandr Lukashenko Untouchable? How Mounting Political Pressure Motivated Belarus’s Dictator President to Engineer a Migrant Crisis in the EU

On December 6th, 1991, Belarus and 14 other independent states emerged from the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Belarus hosted its first presidential election in 1994, where 39-year old Aleksandr Lukashenko won with 45.8% of the votes in the first round and 80.6% of the votes in the second round. The populist rose to fame […]