Video Belarus: inside Europe's last dictatorship (Channel 4 special report)

[ChickenGuy]

I watched this report on the news last evening, other British JUBbers may also have seen it....

It's one of the most overlooked and little-known countries in Europe, yet it borders Ukraine, and Russia, and now also the E.U. and NATO with the Baltic states and Poland.

It is also a Soviet-era throwback and a Russian puppet-state, ruled by an eccentric dictator for the last 20 years, and has probably the worst human rights and lack of free speech in the whole of Europe.

A very enlightening insight, well worth a look.

 

[Kulindahr]

Why do international organizations play nice to such trash?

 

[rareboy]

^ Good question.

Unfortunately Belarus has never been all that important culturally and of course...is now being rented by Russia as a buffer between the Nato European allied countries and Mother Russia.

It is one of the countries that has been easy to ignore because no one has ever been that much interested in it except as a region to march through.

With the partition of the Ukraine....Belarus will suddenly have a very pivotal role in the affairs of Europe. Everyone should learn more.

Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko has criticized separatist referendums in Ukraine and warned Russia not to take any more ex-Soviet territory after annexing Crimea, Russian media reported. 
"Ukraine must be a united, whole state. Both the east and the west are Ukraine," Lukashenko said in an interview late on Wednesday with Dozhd.


Lukashenko said he would fight any invader including President Vladimir Putin. "No matter who comes to Belarussian land, I will fight. Even if it is Putin," he said.


Under Lukashenko's authoritarian rule since 1994, Belarus is Russia's closest ally, relying on Moscow for cheap energy and serving as a buffer zone between Russia and NATO nations. But the president often tells Belarussians he will bend to neither Russia nor the West.

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/...says-ukraine-must-be-united-state/500693.html

Because with opinions like the current leader has...it won't be long before there is polonium in his borscht.

 

[palbert]

What would Europe be without at least one dictatorship?

 

[Kulindahr]

^ Good question.

Unfortunately Belarus has never been all that important culturally and of course...is now being rented by Russia as a buffer between the Nato European allied countries and Mother Russia.

It is one of the countries that has been easy to ignore because no one has ever been that much interested in it except as a region to march through.

With the partition of the Ukraine....Belarus will suddenly have a very pivotal role in the affairs of Europe. Everyone should learn more.



http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/...says-ukraine-must-be-united-state/500693.html

Because with opinions like the current leader has...it won't be long before there is polonium in his borscht.

He's talking for domestic pride. Putin understands the rhetoric, and knows it doesn't change anything.

 

[Kulindahr]

How sad.

Those poor people.

What makes it worse is all those athletes seeing only what they're supposed to.

 

[Telstra]

Have the porn producers enter Belarus yet ?