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Ex-teacher hopes to free Belarus from president's iron fist

by Associated Press
| August 4, 2020 2:27 AM

BREST, Belarus (AP) — A 37-year-old former English teacher without political experience seems an unlikely challenger to the authoritarian president of Belarus who has been the ex-Soviet nation's only leader for more than a quarter-century.

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