En 1994, la corruption massive, la misère, le désordre ont porté au pouvoir M. Loukachenko, lequel a appliqué un traitement trop drastique : il a réduit une partie de la corruption mais la tentation autoritaire s’est mêlée au même dirigisme qui a provoqué la chute de l’Union soviétique et depuis, peu de choses ont changé.
An extremely high level of corruption, poverty and disorder catapulted Lukashenko to power in 1994, but his remedy was too brutal: he eliminated some of the corruption but his authoritarian tendencies were combined with the sort of dirigisme which had already led to the break-up of the Soviet Union, and there has been little change since then.
