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Alexander Atroshchenkov spoke with the new UN Special Rapporteur on Belarus, Anais Marin. Marin is known as one of the few Western experts on Belarus, and expands on why Lukashenko failed Russia’s loyalty test and what subsequent price Belarus may have to pay.
What impression did the observer experience make on you in 2008 and especially in 2010? Have you seen violations with your own eyes?
The OSCE / ODIHR methodology is such that what one observer sees means nothing. Conclusions are made on the basis of thousands of reports. But yes, of course I did.
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Anaïs Marin (PhD, Sciences Po Paris) is an independent Belarus expert based in Warsaw. An associate fellow with the Russia and Eurasia program at Chatham House since 2018; she also holds the pro bono mandate of UN Special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus.
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