Hanna Liubakova

Hanna Liubakova is a Belarusian journalist for Outride.rs and a mentor in solutions journalism. She is a 2019 World Press Institute fellow.

Could COVID-19 mean a new social contract for Belarus?

President Alexander Lukashenka faces his toughest challenge yet. But Belarusians won't forget that in this crisis, civil society has proved more resourceful than the state.

By Hanna Liubakova

/ 30 May 2020

Could COVID-19 mean a new social contract for Belarus?

“We don’t need the State Department to hold a revolution”

Russian rights defender Svetlana Gannushkina has been defending the rights of refugees and displaced persons for years. Here she talks about the decay of the judicial system in Russia, Chechnya and pessimism. RU

By Hanna Liubakova

/ 20 Dec 2018