Monthly Archives: August 2020

Protests erupted in Belarus after polls let president win reelection

Protests erupted in Belarus after exit polls showed President Alexander Lukashenko had long been re-elected, Reuters reported Sunday. State-approved turnout polls showed the president won 79.7 percent of the vote, while his main opponent Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, a former English teacher, received 6.8 percent, according to the newswire. Police had blocked …

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