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HARDtalk: Andrei Sannikov

21/07/2010

Andrei Sannikov

BBC News Channel - HARDtalk, Andrei Sannikov

Stephen Sackur meets Andrei Sannikov, a Belarusian opposition politican.

Is the iron grip of Belarus's President Lukahenko working? Stephen Sackur meets Andrei Sannikov, an opposition activist and would-be Belarusian presidential candidate.

Belarus would seem to have all the attractions of a Soviet-era theme park - a command economy, a fearsome state security apparatus and elections where the president's victory is pre-ordained. But is the iron grip of President Lukashenko working? Stephen Sackur meets Andrei Sannikov, an opposition activist and would-be presidential candidate. Is Belarus is about to come in from the cold?

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