One year ago, on 9 August 2020, Belarus saw regular presidential elections. To that red-letter day, it was clear the election results would be falsified. Why? The start of the electoral campaign was marked by the arrests of opposition...
Belarusians are beginning to overcome their Soviet mentality and to demand democracy and a law-based state, Olga Dryndova, editor of the Bremen-based BelarusAnalysen says. Indeed, except for the three Baltic nations, they are far ahead in...
What Belarusians fear B.B.: How can you live and create in such conditions, when authorities can stop a passenger flight and arrest someone like the journalist Roman Protasevich. Aren’t you afraid they might come for you tomorrow? To...
“Remember, I said a year ago … that perhaps a time will come when Russian President Vladimir Putin and I will have to stand next to each other and shoot back. And you took it for a joke. But you now see how life has turned around,”...
It is now three months since Belarusians said they had enough of the rule of the “last dictator in Europe” and rose up against rigged elections. Every day of these three months, Belarusians from all regions and walks of life...
The profound sense of bitterness and resentment about the past is a core element of pro-Kremlin myths. It shapes how both history and present times are portrayed in media loyal to the Kremlin: the Western world has always been hostile,...
An estimated 100,000 marched in the Belarusian capital Minsk today, holding a “People’s Inauguration” of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the likely winner of the rigged presidential election of 9 August. Despite the rain and...
On the very first day of the protests, Belarusian policemen proved themselves to be brutal defenders of Lukashenka’s regime. Euromaidan Press has repeatedly written about various cases of abuse: Belarus hacktivists dox riot police after...
Nina Baginskaya, a 73-year-old Belarusian pensioner and civil activist, has taken part in protests since 1988 – first against Communism, then against dictator Alyaksandr Lukashenka. She became widely known in 2006 after the...
At first glance, it is not difficult to understand Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya’s logic. Belarusians with different ideals oppose the fake results of the presidential election and Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s authoritarian regime, and they all...
Sources of daily corruption Although no country can eliminate corruption entirely, societies that have experienced extreme violence or totalitarianism have a special predisposition for corruption. Why? Because corruption for them was the...
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