Author: Hanna Liubakova
2019 WPI Fellow
Bio: Hanna is an investigative journalist and researcher from Belarus. For the past six years she has written for various Belarusian and international media outlets. Her prior experience includes radio, digital and television production, including work for Radio Free Europe as a recipient of Vaclav Havel Fellowship. She also worked as a Belsat TV presenter and correspondent from Prague, London, Warsaw and Brussels, among others.
Website: https://medium.com/@hanna.liubakova
Twitter: @HannaLiubakova
Trafalgar Square, #London. Belarusians are rallying and singing in solidarity. #UK
Rally in solidarity with #Belarus took place on Schumanplein in #Brussels
3#Belarus in #Germany.The Belarusian embassy in Berlin and consulate in Munich were one of the very few services that allowed the diaspora,not only embassy's officers, count ballots during the election.Not anymore.These"outsiders"were recently refused participation due to #COVID19
Posts by Hanna Liubakova:
The much-trumpeted conspirationalism
Not only was President Trump trying to coerce a foreign leader to find dirt on a political opponent, he also promotes a longstanding conspiracy theory originating in right-wing circles. As the rough transcript of Trump’s conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr...
Knock, knock! It’s a post-truth world
How reality has become a subjective affair worldwide. When in 2014, Peter Pomerantsev, a British journalist born in the Soviet Union, published his acclaimed book “Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible,” Russia was very much of an exotic country, with no rules...
America’s thank you to the immigrant
Donald Trump has consistently made opposition to immigration the center of his politics and Twitter feed. On Broadway, immigration is a topic to sing about. On the evening of September 12, I happened to be in a theater in New York City, watching “Hamilton,” the...
Meritocracy might be a sham. But there’s no reason to think education is bad for America
In December 2017, I graduated from one of the UK universities. Merely because I was an international, non-EU student, my tuition fee was much higher than what home students had to pay. I was luckier than many of them, though. I got a scholarship that covered the fee...
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