For the past two weeks, Belarus has been gripped by political protest. The country’s longtime authoritarian president, Alexander Lukashenko, is courting Russian intervention as a worried European Union looks on. 
Guest: Julia Ioffe, GQ correspondent. Read her latest column on Belarus. 
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For the past two weeks, Belarus has been gripped by political protest. The country’s longtime authoritarian president, Alexander Lukashenko, is courting Russian intervention as a worried European Union looks on. 

Guest: Julia Ioffe, GQ correspondent. Read her latest column on Belarus. 

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