Le Taurillon

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Belarus a year after

Last year thousands of demonstrators gathered in the streets of Minsk, protesting against rigged results of the Presidential elections. For many the events were expected to be the beginning of the end of Lukashenka’s more than 10 years dictatorial rule. Despite the almost non-existing election (...)

mercredi 21 mars 2007

Minsk – expérience vécue

J’avais huit ans quand le Mur de Berlin est tombé ; c’est mon premier souvenir de politique internationale. Je ne m’attendais donc pas à être un jour arrêté par le KGB, et conduit à leur QG dans une Volga noire. Ça ressemble à un scénario de mauvais film d’espionnage ; c’est pourtant ce qui m’est arrivé en (...)

dimanche 18 mars 2007

Minsk - up close and personal

I was eight years old when the Berlin Wall collapsed ; it must be my first memory of World politics. Therefore I never expected to be arrested by the KGB, and taken to the HQ in a black Volga. It sounds like the plot to a bad spy movie ; however it just happened to me this March in the middle (...)

vendredi 16 mars 2007

A Bubble of Freedom in Europe’s last dictatorship

Around Minsk, the capital of Belarus, one will find graffiti with the words “We are tired of him” or “We want another one”. The graffiti is made by young people who want to put an end to Lukashenko’s authoritarian rule of Belarus that is now more than a decade long. Alexander Milinkevich was the (...)

mercredi 14 mars 2007

Jens-Kristian Lütken

Articles de cet auteur (4)

Belarus a year after

Minsk – expérience vécue

Minsk - up close and personal

A Bubble of Freedom in Europe’s last dictatorship