Belarus on the brink
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25-08-2020
As usual in Belarus, the 9 August presidential election was marred by fraud, repression and state violence against the opposition. As expected, the long-standing President, Aleksander Lukashenko, claimed a landslide victory. What was unusual this time, however, was the scale of Belarusians' disappointment: peaceful protests and strikes spread throughout the entire country in response to the stolen election, despite brutal crackdowns. What started as a national crisis now represents a wider struggle between truth and lies, democracy and autocracy, raising the stakes for both Minsk and Moscow, whose nervousness has spilled over into mounting aggression.
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- ATIVIDADE POLÍTICA
- Bielorrússia
- censura
- CIÊNCIAS
- ciências humanas
- comunicação
- crise política
- EDUCAÇÃO E COMUNICAÇÃO
- eleição presidencial
- Europa
- fraude eleitoral
- GEOGRAFIA
- geografia económica
- geografia política
- geopolítica
- oposição política
- processo eleitoral
- quadro político
- regime autoritário
- repressão
- Rússia
- vida política e segurança pública
- violência de Estado