The shortest summary Some people took to the streets before the elections were over. They had decided in advance that they would protest. On the first day, there was no violence on our part, but then violence against us began. Provocateurs disguise themselves as civilians, and then onlookers and curious people get the brunt of the attacks — this is the technology of color revolutions. I want to apologize to random passersby who were detained.

The Ministry of Health of Belarus called for an end to violence at protests, the appeal was published on the telegram channel of the department. “We appeal to all compatriots - stop the spiral of violence on the streets of our cities, do not provoke each other!” — stated in the text of the statement. We want children's laughter to sound again in the country, and not the howl of sirens and horns, the sounds of explosions, we want to feel an atmosphere of joy and tranquility.

The main events of the fifth day of protests in Belarus Sergey Gapon / AFP / Scanpix / Leta In Belarus, the fifth day of mass protests, provoked by the disagreement of their participants with the official results of the presidential elections, was held. This time, their main slogans were directed against violence. Like the day before, the police and the military abstained from the hard acceleration of the protesters, there was also no about mass detentions.

Speaker of the upper house of the Belarusian parliament Natalya Kochanova said that Alexander Lukashenko instructed to deal with the mass detentions of protesters. “The President heard the opinion of labor collectives and instructed to look into all the facts of detentions that have occurred in recent days, and now intensive work is underway in this direction.

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The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus, Yuri Karaev, apologized for the fact that during the protests, police officers detained random people, Sputnik reports. “I take responsibility and apologize for the injuries of random people at the protests who fell under the distribution,” the agency quotes an interview with Karaev on the air of the ONT television channel.

During the protests, the security forces in Belarus detained almost seven thousand people. In insulators, they are treated as if they are not people Natalya Fedosenko / TASS / Scanpix / Leta Vardan Grigoryan, detained during the protest rally, at the temporary detention center After the presidential elections in Belarus, which took place on August 9, protest promotions are held throughout the country. Almost seven thousand people were detained.

The editor of the investigation department and the chairman of the trade union organization Vedomosti, Bela Lyauv, and the leadership of the Trade Union of Journalists appealed to the labor inspectorate and the Moscow prosecutor's office with a request to check the newspaper Vedomosti on the fact of violation of labor rights.

Arrested during protests in Minsk and jailed for two days, a Russian journalist describes the carnage of Belarusian incarceration Znak.com Nikita Telizhenko Znak.com correspondent Nikita Telizhenko was one of several Russian journalists in Minsk on August 10 to cover the Belarusian presidential election. On Sunday evening, the story switched abruptly to mass protests that swept the capital and the violent police crackdown that followed.

Fifth days of protest Tatyana Zenkovich / EPA / Scanpix / Leta In Belarus, the fifth day in a row continues mass protests due to the results of the presidential elections, in which, according to preliminary data from the CEC, Alexander Lukashenko won. During the day, people in many cities of the country got into the “chain of solidarity” - shares against the violence of security forces in relation to the protesters: their participants dress in white clothes and hold flowers in their hands.

Belarusian investigators have interrogated Artyom Vazhenkov, coordinator of Open Russia, Anton Gashinsky, lawyer for Pravozashchita Otkrytka, told Meduza. Vazhenkov is suspected of participating in mass riots (Article 293.2), the punishment under this article is from three to eight years in prison. Vazhenkov was detained in Belarus on August 9, the day of the country's presidential elections. He came to Minsk as a blogger and independent observer.

Natalia Fedosenko / TASS / Scanpix / Leta Where did the white-red-white flag come from? The white flag with a red strip in the middle for several years was the official flag of Belarus. At the turn of the XIX-XX centuries, panels with a similar color were in use in the first Belarusian national circles and associations. It is believed that the author of the flag was the architect and engineer Claudius Duzh-Dushevsky, although this is not one hundred percent fact.

An online mining began in support of the adviser to the head of Roscosmos, journalist Ivan Safronov, accused of Stateizer. The broadcast is on the UTUB channel of Novaya Gazeta. New newspaper online printing for freedom of speech, against spyingomania. Freedom to Ivan Safronov!

The official from Vitebsk forced the election commander to change the voting protocol in favor of Lukashenko. The head of the commission confirmed this Valery Sharifulolin / TASS / Scanpix / Leta The head of the election commission in one of the sites in Vitebsk confirmed the authenticity of the audio recording, on which the local official forces members of the election commission to rewrite the final voting protocol in the elections of the President of Belarus in favor of Alexander Lukashenko.

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