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Jul 5, 2021 · “The Belarusian authorities have launched a full-scale assault against civil society, curtailing a broad spectrum of rights and freedoms, targeting people from all...
The protest movement in Belarus: resistance and repression. In August 2020, it appeared that Alexander Lukashenko, the autocratic president of Belarus since 1994, might lose his grip on power after a particularly implausible election result ignited widespread protests. This was an unprecedented challenge, but he was able to retain the ...
Jan 13, 2022 · (Berlin) – Belarusian authorities unleashed an unprecedented crackdown against civil society following peaceful countrywide protests in spring and summer 2020, Human Rights Watch said today...
The 2020–2021 Belarusian protests were a series of mass political demonstrations and protests against the Belarusian government and President Alexander Lukashenko. [70] [71] The largest anti-government protests in the history of Belarus, the demonstrations began in the lead-up to and during the 2020 presidential election, in which Lukashenko ...
- What’s similar?
- What’s Different?
- Conclusion: The Revolution of Consistency Is in Full Swing
Observers see the following similarities in the 2020 Belarusian and 2014 Ukrainian protests: 1. The main goal of both revolutions was (and still is in the Belarusian context)to overthrow the current political regime and democratize the public administration system. This goal had determined the peaceful character of protests in both cases. 2. At the...
The two protests had the most commonalities in their initial phase. But their subsequent development leads us to see their differences:
In a certain sense, the duality of the Ukrainian Euromaidan proved to be so influential that it determined two trends visible in the trajectory of the Belarusian protest: 1. its exemplary peaceful character and longing for large-scale transformations on the one side, 2. the brutal repressions from the side of the state on the other side. The Revolu...
Feb 19, 2024 · Last review: 4 March 2024. The Council approved conclusions on Belarus focusing on support for civil society actors while condemning the current regime for its repression of democracy, disrespect of human rights, and complicity in Russia's war against Ukraine.
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Aug 16, 2020 · If Russia were to send in troops to shore up the Belarusian leader, it risks alienating the Belarusian people and creating anti-Moscow sentiment. True, Moscow is determined to keep Belarus within ...
