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What a show. Lukashenko steps off a state helicopter in riot garb and carrying an assault rifle.
Incredible. Lukashenko, donning full OMON riot police gear in a series of propaganda videos released by Belarusian state media, says protesters — his the Belarusian people — “scattered like rats” as he arrived to thank security forces. Notice the assault rifle at his side. 🙄
Omg that’s his 16-year-old son Kolya in full combat gear beside him.
Link to those videos on the @beltanews Telegram channel: t.me/belta_telegram…
Sorry. 15*-year-old son Kolya.
Here’s Lukashenko and Kolya with an unidentified woman during an emergency meeting tonight in Minsk. Kalashnikovs sit on the roundtable. Check out young Kolya’s vest.
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Another Sunday, another big opposition demonstration planned in Minsk this afternoon. Ahead of it, Lukashenko sent a large column of military vehicles and anti-riot trucks into the city. Earlier in the week he implied he was ready to crush protesters.
Do follow @HannaLiubakova who is in Minsk and reporting on events. She has a good thread here about the mood of Belarusians as they prepare for what could be a decisive protest.
Ominous sign. In a courtyard in central Minsk, Belarusian riot police appear to be gearing up for this afternoon’s opposition protest.
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UPDATE: Tikhanovskaya speaks: Clearly distressed, she says she left Belarus for her children’s sake. “God forbid you have to face the choice I had to face.”
Tikhanovskaya says she supposed she’s still the “weak woman” she was at the start of this. She says she knows that many people will condemn her and many others will understand her decision. She adds that “children are the most important things in life.”
Situation gets weirder: In video apparently recorded before she left Belarus, reading from script, Tikhanovskaya calls on Belarusians to accept Lukashenko’s “victory” and stop protesting. We know she was held incommunicado at election commission yday. Seems this happened there.
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🗳Election Day in Belarus🗳

President Lukashenko is expected to rig the results to secure a sixth term. Challenging him is a 37-year-old former English teacher who was a total unknown weeks ago but has galvanized the opposition.

Watch this space.

buzzfeednews.com/article/christ…
Lukashenko has used his riot police to crack down on opposition supporters, grabbing many off the streets and jailing them. But his security services are also employing other tricks to suppress people’s voices, including disrupting internet access.
Here’s challenger Svetlana Tikhanovskaya last night encouraging Belarusians to vote and later to return to their polling stations as results are counted. She pleads with election commission officials not to falsify the results.
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