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Podcast: The Peter McCormack Show
Episode: How Bitcoin is Helping Protesters in Belarus with Alex Gladstein & Jaraslau Likhachevski - WBD266
Description: Location: Squadcast Date: Wednesday 30th September Company: Human Rights Foundation & BYSOL Role: Chief Strategy Officer Belarus is in the midst of massive protests, sparked in August by an election win for the long time leader of the country, Alexander Lukashenko. Lukashenko has been in power since the first presidential election in Belarus in 1994 when the country gained independence from the Soviet Union. The constitution following independence limited presidents to two terms but Lukashenko fought to change this and has remained in power since. Following the disputed election on August 9th hundreds of...