Vladimir Putin threatens to intervene in Belarus to support ‘Europe’s last dictator’ Viktor Lukashenko as 200,000 people pour onto the streets protesting his ‘rigged’ reelection People called poured onto streets of Belarus calling for President’s resignation President Viktor Lukashenko launched a brutal crackdown after claiming victory Now Kremlin is looking at using a joint defence … Read more
Mass strikes have hit Belarus on the sixth day of protests against the ‘rigged’ re-election of dictator Alexander Lukashenko as hundreds of ‘tortured’ protesters are released from prison. Belarusian authorities released hundreds of people who were detained amid demonstrations contesting the results of the presidential election, in an attempt to assuage public anger over a … Read more
Activists in Belarus have recorded the ‘screams of torture victims’ coming from inside a Minsk prison on the 4th day of anti-regime protests since a rigged election on Sunday. Protesters have been fighting running battles with police, using stones and fireworks, and being hit with rubber bullets and tear gas on the streets of Minsk. … Read more
Activists in Belarus have recorded the ‘screams of torture victims’ coming from inside a Minsk prison on the 4th day of anti-regime protests since a rigged election on Sunday. Protesters have been fighting running battles with police, using stones and fireworks, and being hit with rubber bullets and tear gas on the streets of Minsk. … Read more
The main opposition leader in Belarus has fled to Lithuania ‘for the sake of her children’ amid deadly clashes after losing a disputed election to Alexander Lukashenko. Protesters fought police with stones and fireworks and were hit with rubber bullets and tear gas on the streets of Minsk as they accused strongman leader Alexander Lukashenko … Read more
Crowds of protesters demanding an end to the rule of ‘Europe’s last dictator’ clashed with police on the streets of Belarus last night. The clashes came after state-approved exits polls claimed Alexander Lukashenko had won a landslide victory to retain the presidency he has held since 1994. Outraged opposition supporters came out in their thousands … Read more
In the absence of an official Covid-19 death toll – at least one that anyone believes – the people of Belarus rely on an altogether more primitive source of information. A street kiosk in the former Soviet republic’s fourth city, Vitebsk, bore a terse, medieval warning in red spray paint last week. ‘Vitebsk, 22 corpses. … Read more