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Andrei Sannikov on Belarus' Disputed Presidential Election

Andrei Sannikov was once Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s deputy foreign minister, but they are emphatically no longer allies. Sannikov ran against the president in 2010 and came in second, only to be jailed shortly afterwards and subjected to horrifying treatment. He joins the program from Warsaw, Poland, where he is living in exile.