Interview of the ally of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya - musician Maria Kolesnikova. She is the only one of the "female triumvirate" who remained in Minsk Sergey Gapon / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Maria Kolesnikova was the head of the campaign headquarters Viktor Babariko, who was originally considered the main competitor of Alexander Lukashenko in the presidential election in 2020.

Three BBC journalists covering protests in Minsk on August 11 were attacked by "a group of security forces in unmarked black uniforms," ​​the channel's Russian Service reports. The correspondents had certificates and accreditations from the Belarusian Foreign Ministry, and were also wearing identification vests. According to the BBC, the attackers tried to snatch and smash the camera from the journalists. They were not detained.

Belarusian officials say foreigners are responsible for the country’s sudden Internet outages, but I.T. experts suspect the government is to blame Valery Sharifulin / TASS / Scanpix / LETA Belarusians have witnessed rolling Internet blackouts for the past three days. The major social networks, instant messengers, and search engines have been nearly inaccessible, while the rest of the world has been unable to open websites hosted on Belarus’s national domain (.by).

In Minsk, on Kamennaya Gorka (a district in the west of the city), several hundred people gathered after ten in the evening, they blocked the road to the exit from the city. It is reported by Tut.by. The protesters are trying to build barricades from garbage cans and benches, one of the barricades stood for five minutes, it was dismantled by riot police. According to Nasha Niva, on Kamennaya Gorka, people dismantled paving slabs and throw them into a paddy wagon.

More than 50 journalists have been arrested in Belarus this week Sergey Grits / AP / Scanpix / LETA Arrested protesters’ loved ones gathered outside of a detention center in Minsk — the whereabouts of many detainees remain unknown During the protests in Minsk on the night of August 10, Belarusian riot police beat up Meduza’s special correspondent Maxim Solopov. Afterwards, he went missing for more than 40 hours.

RIA Novosti photographer Ilya Pitalev and Znak.com correspondent Nikita Telizhenko were released from detention centers in Minsk, Interfax reports, citing Russian Ambassador to Belarus Dmitry Mezentsev. of them Both for five years . were banned from entering Belarus Belarusian journalist Stanislav Ivashkevich was also released from the pre-trial detention center. He cooperates with Belsat and Proekt, reports .

The European Union believes that the presidential elections in Belarus were neither free nor fair. “We will study the actions of the Belarusian authorities in this situation and carry out a deep reassessment of our relations with Belarus,” the European Council said in a statement.

Reporters were beaten, now they are not allowed to get in touch Sergey Gritz / AP / Scanpix / Leta close to the insulation of the offenders in Minsk detained at the center of isolation - the whereabouts of many of them are not known exactly. August 11, 2020 On the night of August 10, in Minsk, during the protest rally, Maxim Solopov, a special correspondent of Medusa, was detained - before that, riot police beat him with batons. The location of Maxim was unknown for more than 40 hours.

Meduza special correspondent Maxim Solopov, who was beaten and arrested by riot police while reporting from a protest in Minsk on Sunday night, has been released from jail, according to Russia’s embassy in Belarus. The journalist was reportedly freed from a detention center and transferred to the custody of Russian diplomats, who say he will be returned to Russia soon. Solopov was beaten by his arresting officers and suffered a light concussion.

Meduza special correspondent Maksim Solopov, who was detained by Belarusian police while dispersing protests in Minsk, has been released. This was reported at the Russian Embassy in Belarus. The journalist was released from the isolation ward on Akrestina Street in Minsk (Isolation Center for Offenders of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Minsk City Executive Committee) and handed over to the embassy staff. In the near future he will be taken to the border of Russia.

The media outlet Daily Storm has published footage of Meduza correspondent Maxim Solopov’s arrest in Minsk after midnight on August 10. The video shows how riot police beat Solopov with clubs as he kneeled on the ground. The video was recorded by Daily Storm journalist Anton Starkov, who was later arrested himself with colleague Dmitry Lasenko. Both me were released from jail the following day, but Solopov’s whereabouts remain unknown.

The Daily Storm publication posted a video of the detention in Minsk Medusa correspondent Maxim Solopov on the night of August 10. The record shows how OMON employees beat Solopov with batons. The video contains non -normative vocabulary. Daily Storm Live video detention of the Medusa correspondent Maxim Solopov in Minsk The video was shot by Daily Storm journalist Anton Starkov. Later he himself was detained with another employee of this publication Dmitry Lasenko.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. The story of the "Nekht" is a Belarusian telegram channel invented by a schoolboy. Now this is the main media of Belarus, telling about protests - and coordinating them In Belarus, protests continue after the presidential election. Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who, according to interviews of independent eczitpols, won the vote, left the country to Lithuania. They could put on her through her husband Sergei Tikhanovsky, who is under arrest.

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Belarus is witnessing a third day of protests following a contested presidential race that ended officially with a landslide victory for long-time incumbent Alexander Lukashenko (Alyaksandr Lukashenka). The main opposition candidate, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya (Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya), rejected the state’s election results and demonstrators have clashed with riot police on the streets of Minsk and other cities.