Tag: Russia


Some of Them Are Still in Custody 28 August 2020 | TUT.BY, BAJ, Evropejskaia Pravda, BAJ On August 27, at about 6pm two dozen journalists were detained at Svabody Square, including TUT.BY reporter Stanislau Sharshukau and TUT.BY photographer Vadzim Zamirouski. Read more…


Lukashenko in a bulletproof vest

25 August 2020 | Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) Demonstration of force as a signal to all protesters. President walking around in a bulletproof vest amidst a peaceful march in Minsk.


“We are the ones who want to negotiate” 24 August 2020, 15:49 | Coordination Council On 24 August, the Coordination Council held a press conference. Lilia Vlasava, Pavel Latushka, Maryia Kalesnikava and Maxim Znak answered journalists’ questions. These are the Read more…


Minister of Defence Chrenin

A closed-door speech by the Minister of Defence to officers 20 August 2020, 18:10 | Nasha Niva On 19 August, Defence Minister Viktar Khrenin met with heads of structural units of the Ministry of Defence, the General Staff and the Read more…


Lukashenko is handing control over to Putin

Lukashenko is handing control over Belarus to the Kremlin 20 August 2020 | iSANS The thing that people have warned about for so long has happened. Russia has launched a hybrid operation to establish control over Belarus’ media, public sphere, Read more…


16 August, 2020, 11:21, Interfax-West Former deputy chairman of the KGB, retired Major-General Ivan Yurkin, condemned the violence against the participants of mass protests and suggested holding an emergency parliamentary hearing on the situation in Belarus. “The events in the Republic Read more…


14 August, 2020, 22:35, Aliaxandar Klaskovsky, Naviny.by Today, several thousand employees of Minsk Tractor Works (one of the biggest government-owned plants in the country) and other enterprises with their posters, banners and demands freely reached the square in front of Read more…


Scary ZNAK.com report on how detainees at protests are beaten in jails in Belarus 12 August 2020, 18:23 | ZNAK Znak.com correspondent Nikita Telizhenko was detained on the evening of 10 August in Minsk, before a protest rally against the Read more…


In Belarus, journalists are beaten and detained, and no one will be held responsible for it 12 August 2020, 11:55 | Volha Loika, TUT.BY Vest, badge, passport, editorial ID and assignment. “Press” on the chest, on the back, but not Read more…


Key events since election day 12 August 2020, 12:46 | TUT.BY All of Belarus has experienced an unprecedented three days of internet problems which, as we all hoped, were over by Wednesday morning, 12 August. A significant proportion of the Read more…