Subscribe to our YouTube on August 23 in Minsk a new action was held with a demand for the resignation of Alexander Lukashenko. According to Medusa, about 150 thousand people took part in it.

The 15th day of protests in Belarus. Main Reuters / Scanpix / Leta In Minsk, a new action was held against Alexander Lukashenko . According to RT and Belteleradiocompany , about 20 thousand people took part in it, according to Medusa - 150 thousand (per share a week ago, which became the most massive in the modern history of Belarus, at least 200 thousand inhabitants of Minsk came ).

Photos of Evgeny Feldman In the center of Minsk on Sunday, on August 23, another huge action was held demanding the resignation of Alexander Lukashenko. In it, according to Medusa, about 150 thousand people participated (apparently a little less than a week ago ). The demonstrators gathered in Independence Square, then marched in the city center and headed for the Palace of Independence - the Presidential Residence. There, a chain of police blocked the road to them.

The state news agency of Belarus "Belta" published a video showing how Alexander Lukashenko flew up in a helicopter to the Palace of Independence - his residence, next to which the police blocked the way to a column of demonstrators.

Ints Kalniņš / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta tens of thousands of people on August 23 lined up in a live chain from Vilnius to the Belarusian border as a sign of solidarity with demonstrators who speak in Belarus against Alexander Lukashenko. The action, called the “Way of Freedom”, was timed to the 31st anniversary of the “Baltic Way”.

Alyaksandr Lukashenka flew by helicopter to the Palace of Independence in Minsk, where protesters gathered on August 23 and marched through the city center. Judging by the video of the Pul Pervogo telegram channel (this is the channel of Lukashenka's press service), he got out of the helicopter with a machine gun in his hands. “The president is wearing a bulletproof vest. In the hands of a machine gun, ”the press service said. The Palace of Independence is the residence of Lukashenka.

near the Belarusian embassy, ​​where a rally of solidarity with protesters against Alexander Lukashenko is taking place In Moscow , at least 11 people were detained . This was reported to OVD-Info by one of the detainees, musician of the Rodonitza group Oleg Klimov. According to Klimov, he was detained on his way to the Belarusian embassy. The reason for the arrest was not explained to him. Klimov suggested that the reason was a white and red T-shirt with the symbols of the Rodonitza group.

Some of the protesters gathered near the stele "Minsk - Hero City" headed towards the State Flag Square. It is reported by Tut.by. Near the square is the Palace of Independence. It is called the residence of Alexander Lukashenko, but he does not live there permanently, but works, holds official events and receives foreign delegations. According to Radio Liberty, a cordon of law enforcement officers was built near the Palace of Independence.

Subscribe to our YouTube in Minsk is the next mass action against Alexander Lukashenko. The protests in Belarus lasted daily from August 9 - the day of the presidential election. They collect the largest number of participants on Sundays. On August 16, the number of participants in the protest campaign was estimated at 200 thousand people. On August 23, according to media estimates, about 150 thousand people gathered in the center of Minsk.

Updated . The protesters began to move from the stele "Minsk - Hero City" towards the State Flag Square, next to which is the Palace of Independence built by Lukashenka. This route was proposed by the opposition telegram channel Nexta. Some of the protesters in Minsk approached the stele "Minsk - Hero City", which was guarded by military personnel. It is reported by Tut.by. According to Nasha Niva, the stele is guarded by more than a thousand servicemen.

The leader of the Batkivshchyna party, member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has contracted the coronavirus. This information was confirmed by her press secretary Marina Soroka. “Yes, unfortunately it is true. The test showed that Yulia Vladimirovna has Covid-19. The condition is assessed as serious. Temperature up to 39. Struggling!” Soroka wrote on Facebook.

These are the songs that have defined Belarus’s historic protest movement The anthem of Belarus’s protests so far — and the anthem of most every major protest movement that’s taken place in the post-Soviet space for the last three decades — has been “I Want Change!” by Viktor Tsoi and the band Kino. That said, the local music scene, while simmering for years under a single authoritarian regime, has produced plenty of its own heroes and musical rallying cries.

Evgeny Feldman for Medusa on August 23, before the protest rally to the minsk-city city steel, in the center of the Belarusian capital, military personnel were brought. They surrounded the memorial and stretched out the barbed wire. Participants in the protest campaign gathered in Independence Square and then headed to the Planet Hotel, located next to the stele. About 100 thousand people participate in the action.

Evgeny Feldman for Medusa in the center of Minsk is a mass protest action, on which, according to Euroradio, TUT.BY and NEXTA telegram channel, 100 thousand people gathered. Our Niva reports that there were even more people than on the last Sunday - then 200 thousand protesters gathered in the center of Minsk, it was the most massive action in the history of Belarus. Belsat also notes that people at a rally on August 23 can be about 200 thousand.

Updated . The participants of the action began to move towards the Planet Hotel. It is located opposite the stele "Minsk - Hero City", which is guarded by military personnel. Participants of the protest action in Minsk filled the entire central square of the city - Independence Square. Some of the protesters do not have enough space on the square, they stand on the adjacent section of Independence Avenue, writes Onliner.by. Euroradio estimated the number of participants at 100,000 people.