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Video · March 7, 2023

Two-minute take: The popular Belarusian blogger who took on Lukashenka

interviewee

David J. Kramer

Executive Director, George W. Bush Institute and Vice President

David J. Kramer, Executive Director of the George W. Bush Institute, discusses popular Belarusian blogger Ihar Losik’s struggle for freedom.

Losik was taken as a political prisoner and sentenced to 15 years in jail In December 2021 in an ongoing effort by the Lukashenka regime to silence opponents and neutralize the digital media.

Read Losik’s story in the latest installment of the Bush Institute’s The Struggle for Freedom series.