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    Slaughterman’s Daughter

    Sholem Aleichem meets Tarantino in a new novel set in the Polish shtetl that blends feminism, Zionism, and sword fights

    byAdam Kirsch
  • Belarusian opposition supporters attend a rally in Minsk to protest the disputed Aug. 9 presidential election results, on Sept. 6, 2020. Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko has refused to quit after his disputed reelection and turned to Russia for help to stay in power.
    Belarusian opposition supporters attend a rally in Minsk to protest the disputed Aug. 9 presidential election results, on Sept. 6, 2020. Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko has refused to quit after his disputed reelection and turned to Russia for help to stay in power.
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    Dispatch: Crushing Democracy in Belarus

    With his regime’s survival threatened by mass protests, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko gives up on trying to balance East and West

    byVladislav Davidzon
  • Minsk, Aug. 16, 2020
    Minsk, Aug. 16, 2020
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    A Popular Revolt Against a Pro-Russian Dictator, in Belarus

    Dispatch from the protests where, unlike in Western Europe, tattooed demonstrators with purple hair and skinny jeans also wear large crosses

    byVladislav Davidzon
  • (Photoillustration Tablet Magazine; original photos Getty Images and Shutterstock and Wikimedia Commons)
    (Photoillustration Tablet Magazine; original photos Getty Images and Shutterstock and Wikimedia Commons)
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    Could a Jewish Beauty Have Saved Kennedy by Marrying Lee Harvey Oswald in Minsk?

    Ella German declined Oswald’s proposal, putting him on course to return to the U.S.—where he would assassinate the president

    byPeter Savodnik
  • Plainclothes Belarusian police arrest an opposition supporter at a Day of Freedom rally in Minsk on March 25, 2011.(Viktor Drachev/AFP/Getty Images)
    Plainclothes Belarusian police arrest an opposition supporter at a Day of Freedom rally in Minsk on March 25, 2011.(Viktor Drachev/AFP/Getty Images)
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    WikiTargeted

    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange preaches openness. But in Belarus, Europe’s last dictator is using once-secret U.S. cables to go after dissidents.

    byKapil Komireddi
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