This month, Europe's last ex-Soviet dictator is up for re-election. During his nearly 12 years in power, President Aleksandr Lukashenko has established an iron grip over Belarus. But a growing tide of opposition groups -- inspired by their revolutionary neighbors -- is gaining momentum and could impact an election Mr. Lukashenko has all but locked up.
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The Belarus Election
Listen Wednesday, Mar. 8, 2006 at 1:06 p.m. in Politics
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Guests
Celeste Wallander
Director, Russian and Eurasia Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Iryna Vidanava
Editor-in-chief of Students' Thought, an independent student publication in Belarus.
Rodger Potocki
Senior Program Officer for Central Europe & East-to-East Programs at the National Endowment for Democracy
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