(Roland Oliphant's article appeared in the Independent, 7/7.)
He is the "last dictator in Europe" with a ruthless streak and a Soviet-inherited belief that any opposition to the state is wrong. In short, the word of Alexander Lukashenko, the President of Belarus, is law. Step forward the challenger: the most lucid master of English letters, Sir Tom Stoppard.
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