Word: oktyabrskaya
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...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, 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...
...first glance, some twenty multi-colored tents that popped up in Minsk's downtown Oktyabrskaya Square on Monday night looked the next bright morning like merry little stalls offering hot tea and cakes to those enjoying the square's small outdoor skating rink. But the tents were covered with the national white and red colors of Belarus, frowned upon since President Alexander Lukashenko officially reintroduced the Soviet-era symbols back in 1995, and the 1000 or so people standing vigil around the tents didn't look like they were enjoying a day out with the family. Having spent a freezing...
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