Belarus is sometimes described as the last dictatorship in Europe.
near the border of Belarus and Ukraine.
NATO-- NATO-- so Belarus isn't, Ukraine isn't, Moldova isn't, Georgia that we're getting out of Europe
in a country like Belarus without necessarily having to send in the Marines or -- Steve Grove: Um-hum.
Iran or China or Belarus or many other countries, that would seem like a realistic hypothesis.
Now in Belarus , for example, where I come from we had protests in December after the presidential elections, just months ago.
nation of Belarus has taken home 73.
They surged into what is now Belarus , taken Smolensk.
it became perfectly obvious to those in Belarus that the Russians would be back sooner rather than later.
And when I went to Belarus , I found a woman who still prayed for him every day for saving the life of her husband.
He shared the Peace Prize with the Belarus State Police, who were arrested a one-armed man for applauding.
Steve Grove: you're from Belarus -- Evgeny Morozov: Yes.
by American donors in countries like Belarus or San Alaysia actually had the opposite effect because what happened is that you had this big foreign funder come in and hire all the
male #1: If we want democracy in Belarus ?
its close relations with Russia increasingly closer relations with Beijing Belarus and others you know you can see
The position was that when the Nazis originally invaded Belarus , they were looked upon by liberators,
and on stage this week in Seattle in the Belarus Free Theater's production of "Burning Doors," which is a play based on her life
Steve Grove: and -- Evgeny Morozov: Yeah so I come from Belarus which as some of you may know is not probably
Evgeny Morozov: Well I mean there is no Internet filtering in Belarus right now so but again I think there is this virulent, hostile tendency to think that once we build
Belarus is a rogue nation.
And we could see clearly, Russia had people in Belarus .
And he was called that because that is how he was known in his village in Belarus .
The Ig Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Alexander Lukashenko, the President of the country of Belarus .
My father was a first generation here, his father came from Belarus because of the Kishinev Pogrom there that caused the Jews to start leaving.
My family roots grow deep in the soil of nations that comprised the Soviet Union, including Ukraine, Russia, Belarus , and Tajikistan.
I said, "It's war, the missiles came from your land, from Belarus , how did you allow this?"
in that corridor between the Baltic states, Latvia and Lithuania, Estonia, down through Poland, into Belarus and the Ukraine, that were a corridor that was invaded
And they, of course, could not be prosecuted here, because the crime had been committed in Belarus or Poland.
And actually, some extraordinary examples of completely flipping it on its head, so governments got-- this was Belarus , wasn't it?
I was well on my way to being an ambassador somewhere, maybe Belarus .
the baseline credibility level you have to have that Venezuela meets, that Ukraine meets, the Belarus meets.
Russia, of course, Ukraine, Belarus , and Kazakhstan.
But one encouraging thing in wrapping up, this particular thought is that since 1991, we have been working with Russia, Belarus , Ukraine, Kazakhstan and other countries in
So I joined an NGO called "Transitions Online" which was based and still is based in Prague which was not only active in Belarus .
Do you want to pour more money into making sure that existing NGO's and political parties in a country like Belarus
And again from the perspective of someone who wants to spend a pot of money, 10 million or a million dollars on fostering democratic change in a country like Belarus , I'm not
to claim that we can expect the same outcomes to come in, to happen in Russia or Belarus or in Azerbaijan.
And I think looking at my own country to Belarus I do see a lot of young people
As the season progressed, the Carnies improved a little. A Belarusian man, named Pavel, a paternal gent with salt and pepper hair who none of us had ever met, mysteriously started