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Oct 10, 2015 · Newly-crowned Nobel Literature Prize laureate Svetlana Alexievich told Europe on the eve of a presidential election in her country that Belarus was a "soft dictatorship" and the incumbent ...
Oct 10, 2015 · Nevertheless, Belarus remains "a soft dictatorship," Alexeivich said. "Stalin's dictatorship is not the only model. There are lots of other variations." Alexievich won the award for her work...
May 29, 2021 · Belarusian Nobel Literature Prize Laureate Svetlana Alexievch presciently warned that despite Lukashenko’s seemingly friendlier relations with the West, Belarus remained “a soft dictatorship.”
- Nina Jankowicz
Oct 11, 2015 · As Belarusians go to the polls to return Alexander Lukashenko for a fifth term—a regime Alexievich has called “a soft dictatorship”—her work has never been more important. Thinking about Svetlana Alexievich confirms my conviction that great works of art are sometimes produced in the most dismal and repressive circumstances.
Feb 28, 2022 · However, the Kremlin has been pursuing what some called a “soft annexation” of Belarus for some time. Russian oligarchs — members of the super-wealthy elite who managed to acquire private control over major industries as the Soviet Union collapsed — have bought up key pieces of the Belarusian economy.
Aug 5, 2020 · Svetlana Alexievich, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature that year, warned ahead of the ballot that her homeland is a “soft dictatorship.” After the vote, the United States and EU suspended...
Oct 11, 2015 · BERLIN - Nobel Literature Prize laureate Svetlana Alexievich on Saturday warned the EU on the eve of lop-sided elections in her country that Belarus is a "soft dictatorship".
