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| Kamil Kłysiński
On 30 August, a Peace and Independence March attended by at least 100,000 people was held in Minsk. This was the third consecutive Sunday of mass demonstrations held by Belarusian citizens demanding the resignation of Alyaksandr Lukashenka…
Analyses |
| Marek Menkiszak
On the afternoon of 27th August the Russian state-owned television station Rossiya 1 broadcast an interview it had prepared with President Vladimir Putin (www.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/63951). The situation in Belarus and Russian-…
Analyses |
| Kamil Kłysiński
Since the mass demonstration on Sunday in the centre of Minsk (with an estimated 100,000–150,000 participants), the dynamism of the protests has decreased significantly. A similar trend was observed last week, following the first mass…
Analyses |
| Kamil Kłysiński
On 23 August massive crowds of demonstrators took to the streets in the centre of Minsk to protest against the regime under the slogan ‘New Belarus March’. Between 100,000 and 150,000 people took part in the protest, as was the case on the…
Analyses |
| Jakub Jakóbowski
Zhao Lijian, the spokesperson of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was asked to comment on the Belarusian protests at a press conference on 19 August. He said that China respects the “Belarusian people's choice of development path”…
Analyses |
| Kamil Kłysiński
On 18–19 August, the intensity of protests was noticeably lower than during the weekend, though still significant. As on the previous days, residents of Minsk and Grodno were the most active. The first press conference of the Coordinating…
Analyses |
| Kamil Kłysiński
On 17 August, peaceful demonstrations were still being held all over the country, although their numbers were smaller than those held on Sunday. Opponents of the regime gathered mainly in city centres and in front of police barracks where…
Analyses |
| Kamil Kłysiński
Over the last few days, the scale of the protests which now involve almost every city in Belarus has expanded further. The demonstrations are still peaceful, and their numbers vary from tens to hundreds of thousands of people, depending on…
Analyses |
| Kamil Kłysiński
All of the demonstrations that took place on were Thursday were entirely peaceful. They took the forms of living ‘solidarity chains’, marches of groups of demonstrators along city streets and pickets in front of detention centres. The…
Analyses |
| Kamil Kłysiński
More anti-regime demonstrations were seen across the country on 12 August. The protests spilled outside the main protest centres (Minsk, Homel, Hrodna, Vitebsk, Baranovichy, Maladzyechna) to other regional cities and numerous small towns…