Gitanas Nausėda: Will people power take Belarus in a new direction?
Gitanas Nausėda: Will people power take Belarus in a new direction?  
Podcast: HARDtalk
Published On: Fri Sep 11 2020
Description: Will Moscow’s will prevail in Belarus, or will people power take the country in a new direction? Stephen Sackur speaks to Gitanas Nausėda, the president of neighbouring Lithuania. The daily street protests demanding the resignation of Belarus’s authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko haven’t yet tipped the balance against the regime. Lukashenko is still there; the security forces are still doing his bidding. So how is the geopolitics of this going to play out?