Georgetown Public Policy Review
Policy Shaping Our Future
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 […]
Note: The author of this article has chosen to use identity-first language rather than person-first language. Some Disabled people use a capital D to denote community, the way one might write “Black person” or “Deaf person”. The author has done the same where appropriate, so “Disabled” denotes a connection to the community and “disabled” is […]