Belarus has been an outpost of rigged elections, state-sponsored violence, and authoritarian rule for over a decade now, and W. has publicly referred to it as "the last dictatorship in Europe."
Evgeny Morozov talks to Belarusian opposition leader Alexander Milinkevich about the effectiveness of EU's policies in the country, the next steps of the Belarusian opposition, and the future of the country's relations with Russia. Read Belarus: A Dangerous Place for Politics.
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This seems pretty reasonable overall. At least we are told that on what we know so far, development aid is not being squandered on corruption. That's something.