People and Power - Belarus: Europe’s last dictator

In October 2015 a presidential election was held in Belarus. It wasn’t a convincing contest and few thought that victory would go to anyone other than the man who had ruled the country for the past two decades. With an economy in tatters and a chilling charge list of human rights violations against his name, Alexander Lukashenko has long presided over Europe’s closest equivalent to North Korea. That said, the president many accuse of being a dictator eschews a personality cult. There’s little need, say hi