Belarus in Crisis: From Domestic Unrest to the Russia–Ukraine War by Paul Hansbury smoking Aeroflot was the world’s biggest

Aeroflot was the world’s biggest air carrier of passengers and cargo

as he reminds us in the final essay

and Andriy Portnov

Bringing together post-colonial and post-Soviet perspectives

as well as engaging in destabilising measures and cyber-attacks

Belarus in Crisis: From Domestic Unrest to the Russia–Ukraine War by Paul Hansbury smoking Aeroflot was the world’s biggestIn 2020, mass anti government protests erupted across Belarus. The brutal crackdown that followed shocked the international community: the authorities arrested tens of thousands of citizens, shut down independent media and NGOs, and fomented a migrant crisis on the European Unions border. But where many thought Belaruss dictator, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, would fall, he instead turned to Moscow for support, intensifying repression. Many of his opponents