Belarus, thousands march in Minsk. Witnesses: hundreds of arrests

According to the accounts of some witnesses, the Belarusian police arrested hundreds of people and there were brief clashes with the officers who then “blocked our road and started to pull people one by one out of the crowd.” Among those arrested, 73-year-old opposition activist Nina Baginskaja became an icon of the protest movement during protests last month. As always, motorists honk their horns to signal their support. Among the slogans, “freedom of journalists”. The women also exhibited posters that read SOS in Latin characters. Protesters have been calling for the president’s resignation for more than a month Aleksandr Lukashenko.

From the Minsk government, a harsh attack on the European Union for the participation of the former candidate for the Belarusian presidency, Svetlana Tikhanovskaja, at the meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers in Brussels next week: the Lukashenko regime defines it as “a lack of respect for citizens”. This was reported by the spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus, Anatolj Glaz, quoted by the site. Tut. By. “It would be funny and ridiculous if it weren’t true,” he specified. “In fact, it is obvious that such actions are blatant and obvious interference in the internal affairs of our country,” is Glaz’s message, according to which the EU is leading to carried out “action to undermine the sovereignty of Belarus”.