Belarus continues

By PeraclesPlease on Tue, 08/25/2020 - 2:04pm |

Protesters unveil new technique

Particularly violent protest in Minsk tonight. #belarus pic.twitter.com/Q5Qnq9ZO9h
— Oliver Carroll (@olliecarroll) August 24, 2020

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Grrrl power

#Belarus: The moment 10 thousand women in the Women's March in Minsk broke through Riot police lines. (@franakviacorka) pic.twitter.com/4t2rd6M3Ea
— Anonymous (@YourAnonCentral) August 29, 2020

Scenes from the Women's March in #Belarus #StrongerTogether

Video from @tutby pic.twitter.com/l6RvTgud37
— Belarus Freedom Struggle (@belarus_news_en) August 29, 2020

That’s how female protesters greeted one of the most courageous women in #Belarus,Nina Bahinskaya,at the march. Thousands of women are rallying now in the city centre of #Minsk. A @dw_russian journalist Pauluk Bykouski has been detained a moment ago and taken to a police station pic.twitter.com/1DHXRXotbw
— Hanna Liubakova (@HannaLiubakova) August 29, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 08/30/2020 - 3:20am

[Grrrl power US-side:

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2020/08/25/billy-graham-eva...

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 08/30/2020 - 12:12pm

Russian humor

But the real joke is the western press covering made-up Russian vaccine data like real news. Is this paid or free advertising for Putin by Bloomberg? https://t.co/vUlpCe4iEp
— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) September 4, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 09/05/2020 - 1:46am

Tech workers are fleeing Belarus as Lukashenko arrests opposition leaders and turns to Putin https://t.co/utb7eINslP via @BW
— Long "Leo" Pham (@longpham14) September 6, 2020

Thousands protest in Belarus as another key opposition figure leaves https://t.co/GWtQgAkbID
— NAIJATELL.COM (@naijatell) September 6, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 09/05/2020 - 11:42pm

Reed Galen of The Lincoln Project just retweeted this:

Why Belarus protesters will prevail (thread)

1. The protest is creative. People do use technologies and to use arts. Every protest looks like the festival. It is engaging and fun. In the video, you can see the improvised show about Luka. pic.twitter.com/GhBw06Ofqw
— Franak Viačorka (@franakviacorka) September 6, 2020

He did not choose to add a comment like "hint, hint, BLM", left it up to the reader to decide why. I will note, however, that Lincoln Project's projects and tweets are often "engaging and fun."

by artappraiser on Mon, 09/07/2020 - 1:25am

The Left's conspicuous fun often seems contrived and made for cameras and a fair bit mean-spirited, even while talking about so-called progressive values. I find family members on both the left or right hang up on me for the slightest affront to purity values - and I have a pretty goddamned tiny family.

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 09/07/2020 - 1:34am

3. The protest is peaceful. If it is peaceful, authorities look stupid with armored vehicles, water cannons, and armed guys. The peaceful character of protest gives a moral advantage to protesters and limits the authorities since they need to justify the use of violence somehow pic.twitter.com/M5Nzmp5n5S
— Franak Viačorka (@franakviacorka) September 6, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 09/07/2020 - 1:40am

Lukashenka's in trouble

Poster says: "Sponsor of our festival - PUTISHENKO!" More Putin supports Luka, more people in Belarus hate Putin as well. Photo: @svaboda pic.twitter.com/PgvX1XyRRB
— Franak Viačorka (@franakviacorka) September 6, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 09/07/2020 - 1:54am

Germany warns Belarus against disappearances, report Belarus opposition Maria kolesnikova abducted by masked men https://t.co/9GnWwvsny3
— Nordin (@nordinmosses) September 8, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 09/07/2020 - 11:05pm

UK too:

Maria Kolesnikova: Germany and UK call for release of snatched Belarus opposition figure https://t.co/t8zFj3qsLc
— The Guardian (@guardian) September 8, 2020

Witness report that Maria Kalesnikava - the last of the female opposition trio still in Belarus - has been snatched from the street by masked men and taken away. Her whereabouts are still unknown.https://t.co/44QUDouVLb
— Jean Mackenzie (@jeanmackenzie) September 7, 2020

BTW, I noticed that Rachel Maddow is covering this rather heavily. Nice side of her nerdiness is that when she latches on a story she has good researchers and drags her fan base into it. Maybe eventually out of that we get more foreign policy on what has become Trump 24/7 cable TV news

by artappraiser on Tue, 09/08/2020 - 12:05am

Belarus kidnapping - again

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/09/belarus-opposition-figure-...

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 09/09/2020 - 7:44am

By intervening in Belarus to prop up his fellow post-Soviet dictator Alyaksandr Lukashenka, Vladimir Putin risks repeating the mistakes made in Ukraine and fueling anti-Russian sentiment among Belarusians, writes @TarasKuzio. https://t.co/W2uz6XqdQW
— Eurasia Center (@ACEurasia) September 10, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 09/10/2020 - 10:28am

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