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...than a pure grab for more money is in the works: a reincorporation of Belarus into a reconfigured Russian Federation. "It does feel like war is about to break out within days," says journalist and human rights activist Irina Khalip in a phone call from the Belarus capital of Minsk. "People are stockpiling fuel and warm clothes...
...SENTENCED. Alexander Milinkevich, 58, Belarussian opposition leader, to 15 days in jail after being found guilty of attending an illegal demonstration; in Minsk. Milinkevich finished a distant second to President Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus' disputed presidential elections in March, which triggered massive protests in the former Soviet republic. Milinkevich was arrested after leading a demonstration of about 6,000 on April 26 that called for the constitutional overthrow of the Russian-backed Lukashenko...
...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, Minsk. The square had been the site of a tented camp that police destroyed on March 24, when they arrested 328 activists, bringing the number detained since the election to more than 1,000. Opposition leaders insist that the Liberty Day protest was intended to be peaceful. "We're not planning...
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...
...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 a free city. So they moved to remove...