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...Belarus's President Alexander Lukashenko continues his brutal crackdown against protesters opposed to his internationally condemned fraudulent election victory, Europe's last dictator seems to some observers to be running scared; he only showed his face to his countrymen on Tuesday, and has already postponed his previously planned inauguration this coming Friday. But if Lukashenko is indeed feeling increasingly painted into a corner, perhaps he can take comfort from recent elections in nearby Ukraine, where at least one-third of the electorate retain strong support for the same post-Soviet Moscow-favored autocratic leader the voters rejected just 16 months...
...Belarus, March 25 is celebrated as Liberty Day, commemorating the short-lived independent People's Republic of Belarus, proclaimed in 1918, but crushed by Russia's Bolsheviks six months later. This year, the anniversary was marked by a protest rally against the poll held six days earlier, in which - according to official figures - President Alexander Lukashenko, first elected in 1994, won 82.6% of the votes. Lukashenko's opposition, which considers the election results fraudulent and had been holding peaceful protests all week, had planned to hold the March 25 rally in Oktyabrskaya Square, in the center of the capital city...
...husband walked up to the commanding officer smiling and with flowers in hand. Before he started talking, the officer ordered attack." IRINA KOZULINA, wife of Belarus' opposition leader and former presidential candidate Alexander Kozulin , who was seized by riot police after leading thousands in what appeared to be a peaceful protest of the country's recent election results...
After five days of protests against the reelection of Alexander Lukashenko as President of Belarus, police early Friday morning arrested hundreds in an improvised tent camp in downtown Minsk, installed there as a token of popular protest against an election widely described as fraudulent and unrecognized by the U.S. TIME's Yuri Zarakhovich discussed the overnight crackdown in a phone interview with Professor Alexander Kozulin, a presidential candidate from the opposition Social-Democratic Hramada party and one of the two top opposition leaders in Belarus...
...Kozulin: Lukashenko's lost his nerve. Tomorrow, Saturday, March 25, is a major national holiday, albeit unrecognized officially - the anniversary of the Belarus People's Republic, our independent state, proclaimed back in 1918 and destroyed several months later. Lots of people always gather to mark this day. Now, the anniversary coincided with mass election fraud protests. The opposition has called upon the people to come to the square en masse to protest. The authorities were scared that this "pathetic tent camp" worked as a toehold for the dozens of thousands who would show up tomorrow - and turn Minsk into...