Women parade through the streets to protest against the results of the presidential elections in Minsk (AFP) KYIV: Some 10,000 women marched loudly through the Belarusian capital on Saturday, banging on pots and pans and crying out for the resignation of the country’s authoritarian president on the 35th consecutive day …
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Police said Maria Kolesnikova was detained on Tuesday while they investigated the events at the border. Minsk, Belarus: Belarusian authorities tried to forcibly expel the main opposition figure, Maria Kolesnikova, from the country, but she tore her passport in defiance and jumped out of a car window to stay, her …
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Maria Kolesnikova had joined forces with the opposition presidential candidate Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya. Masked men detained Belarusian protest leader Maria Kolesnikova in central Minsk on Monday morning and took her away in a van. Two of her allies also disappeared later, the opposition movement said. Kolesnikova, a member of the opposition …
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