A Female Revolution

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A Belsat TV journalist. He is fascinated by everything that is east of Poland.

I witnessed the outburst of the Belarus revolution. It happened as follows.

Minsk on 9th August, election day is nearly over and everyone is waiting impatiently for the official exit poll results. Belarusians are wondering how many votes will be pocketed by the president this time around. Then, the state media announce that the president has won over 80% of the vote. No-one doubted the election would be rigged, but to go this far? A wave of long-repressed outrage surges among the public; outrage that will pave the way for the biggest political protests in the history of the country.

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Jakub Biernat:

A Belsat TV journalist. He is fascinated by everything that is east of Poland.

Translation: Joanna Piechura

Publish date: 08.10.2020

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Hanna Liubakova:

a freelance journalist from Belarus.

Public plazas, beaches, playgrounds, restaurants, theatres, tourist meccas – all of it, once bustling, feels dead or drastically slowed down. We know it is a disruption to our usual pattern. Not for the Belarusian capital, which has always lived as if in quarantine.

A few months ago, when we talked with friends, life was not shut down to restrain a global pandemic and cities had not become ghost towns yet. Except for one.

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