About the future of Belarusian protests. What will be with them without a leader? What concessions will Lukashenko go? Why are his security forces so aggressive now?

Protests in Belarus have been going on for the third day. People take to the streets in the largest cities of the country. They opposed the announced preliminary results of the presidential election. During the performances, one protester died. The police detained about six thousand people. At least 250 people were in the hospital. The security forces participating in the suppression of unrest act very harshly.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus said that the “protests coordinators” in Minsk were detained. The department believes that they paid people for participating in rallies. The Investigative Committee of the Republic is investigating the case of riots. Among the suspects are the employees of Open Russia, Artem Vyzhenkov and Igor Rogov.

But this official version raises great doubts. Apparently, people in Minsk and other Belarusian cities gather spontaneously, and the only thing that significantly helps their coordination is opposition telegram channels, the largest of which is “non-subject”.

All elections, except President Alexander Lukashenko, complained to the country's CEC of the voting results. The President of Belarus himself at a meeting on the situation in the country said that the bulk of the rallies participants are people with a criminal past and unemployed.

The future of protests in the new episode of the podcast “What happened” is predicted by the Belarusian political analysts Yuri Drakhroust (he works in the Belarusian Service “Radio Liberty”) and Artem Shreibman.

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