Opinion/ Comment ‘Europe’s Last Dictator’ Wields the Ax 31.01.2025 Jon Allsop The war on the press in Belarus: Last week, a man at an automobile plant said that he hadn’t been following an election campaign very closely because he’d been busy. This wasn’t a clichéd vox pop with a disaffected heartland voter, but rather a comment made by Alexander Lukashenko, a man known as "Europe's last dictator."