MINSK (NYTIMES) - Security forces in Belarus on Monday (Aug 24) arrested two of the last high-profile opposition figures not already in jail for protesting against the country's authoritarian president, Alexander Lukashenko.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
MINSK - Security forces in Belarus on Monday arrested two of the last high-profile opposition figures not already in jail for protesting against the country's authoritarian president, Alexander Lukashenko.
Tikhanovskaya claimed victory in the election. Lukashenko, pointing to official results that his opponents and European leaders called fraudulent, insists he won by a landslide. She fled to Lithuania a week ago after security agents in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, detained her and forced her to make a video urging people not to protest the election result.
Two other activists were told to report for questioning by the country's investigative committee in a criminal case against the opposition's coordinating council.Defying expectations that the protest movement might be losing steam in the face of a violent crackdown by Lukashenko, more than 100,000 people flooded into Minsk on Sunday, calling for the president to step down after 26 years in power.
Just minutes before the meeting in Lithuania between the US official and Tikhanovskaya, the Kremlin's spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, told journalists in Moscow that President Vladimir Putin considered all foreign interference in Belarus"inadmissible" and wanted it to stop. But unlike Ukrainian protesters who toppled their own president in 2014, many of whom regarded Russia as an enemy, opponents of Lukashenko have worked to reassure Moscow that their movement is not anti-Russian and that a change of leadership in Minsk would not mean Belarus aligning with NATO and the European Union.
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