i'm not going to simply throw all that way. what's more, if i go, my supporters will be slaughtered." michael kennedy is a professor of sociology at brown university. he has spent a large part of his career looking at social movements in eastern europe and this has given him a large network of contacts in belarus. what do you make of what the president has been saying?m is not surprising to hear lukashenko talk like that. like many authoritarians, he equates himself with the nation but he is also perhaps more worried than he has ever been. he is going to see vladimir putin on friday and will probably make his case thereabout why vladimir putin needs him full up vladimir putin needs him full up he is smart and i think you will see that lukashenko is not exactly the best ally in these times. there is a suspicion that what russia is planning is