In the shadow of the war in Ukraine, the future of another country is being played out on the borders of Europe.
Belarus, a former Soviet republic that became independent in 1991, sees its sovereignty threatened by the headlong rush of Russian power.
For a long time, this country of about 10 million inhabitants tried to maintain a certain distance with this imposing neighbor dreaming of absorbing it.
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But the protests that followed the fraudulent re-election of Alexander Lukashenko in August 2020 marked a turning point in their relationship.
The dictator, weakened by the scale of a protest that he could only extinguish at the cost of brutal repression, gradually placed himself under the direct control of the Kremlin.
"Lukashenko has become Putin's vassal, who, not content with deploying his troops on our territory, is now seeking to train the Belarusian army in its war against Kiev"
, warns Franak Viacorka, a close adviser to the opponent in exile. Svetlana Tikhanovskaya.
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