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I just don't see the point when I don't read it every day. The only time I ever look at it is when someone posts a link.I trust The Guardian with not only my registration details but also my credit card. They've not yet given me cause to regret it.
Because she has a morbid sense of humor?If there really is a god why hasn't he nuked this planet yet?
Aliaksandr Lukashenka can seem like a character from a satirical novel about an imaginary east European country. It is easy to mock the Belarusian strongman’s fractured syntax, awkward body language, deluded world view, and nepotistic habits (his gormless son Nikolai was an awkward presence at last week’s lunch with Vladimir Putin).
But Lukashenka is real, sinister — and triumphant. Seizing two passengers on a civilian flight crossing his country’s territory was a stunt that even a superpower would have found audacious. It prompted a huge international furore, which has been totally ineffective. Lukashenka simultaneously exposed the West’s toothlessness, further intimidated the opposition, and underlined his regime’s support from the only country that matters: Russia.
Belarus’s female revolution: how women rallied against Lukashenko
Protests aimed at toppling autocratic leader have been led by women and show no sign of slowingwww.theguardian.com
Maria Kolesnikova, the imprisoned opposition leader who ripped up her passport at the border rather than be deported, after an iconic recruiting poster from 1941, The Motherland Calls.