Belarus Rivals Vow Protests if Lukashenko Wins

NPR | By Gregory Feifer

Published March 19, 2006 at 8:00 AM EST

Alexander Milinkevich, an opposition candidate for the Belarus presidency, speaks to reporters.

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Gregory Feifer

Gregory Feifer reports for NPR from Moscow, covering Russia's resurgence under President Vladimir Putin and the country's transition to the post-Putin era. He files from other former Soviet republics and across Russia, where he's observed the effects of the country's vast new oil wealth on an increasingly nationalistic society as well as Moscow's rekindling of a new Cold War-style opposition to the West.

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