Belarus Is Cracking Down on Worker-Led Pro-Democracy Protest
In Belarus, a populist government that long claimed the support of its people finds itself repressing a historic protest movement — and its demands for a more democratic politics.
Nelly Bekus is the author of Struggle Over Identity: The Official and the Alternative “Belarusianness” and a co-editor of Orthodoxy Versus Post-Communism? Belarus, Serbia, Ukraine and the Russkiy Mir. She teaches at the University of Exeter.
In Belarus, a populist government that long claimed the support of its people finds itself repressing a historic protest movement — and its demands for a more democratic politics.