After 26 years in power, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko faces his biggest challenge yet. Even after arresting and banning multiple opposition candidates, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya is running a very successful campaign against the incumbent. So where does the US stand in all of this? and what is the current state of US-Belarusian relations? The World’s Daniel Ofman reports.
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