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...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...
...Harvard still has not announced a divestiture from the Russian oil firm Tatneft, despite the fact that other schools—including Amherst, Stanford, and the University of California—have cut ties to Tatneft to protest the company’s links to the Khartoum regime...
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...
...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 a free city. So they moved...
...three days after the election, they have arrested close to 1,000 people, including the kids in the square. They had also arrested some 500 activists within the week before the election. They destroy this country's future when they stifle the people's right to self-expression and protest. They destroy this country's future when they thrown the young in jails. This is Lukashism...