Tag: Alyaksandr Lukashenka

This story by Tanya Lokot originally appeared on Global Voices on August 3, 2021. It is republished under a Creative Commons Attribution-Only license.   Belarusian activist Vital Shyshou, who went missing in Ukraine on August 2, has been found dead in a park near his home in Kyiv, according to police reports. Shyshou, who left Belarus in the autumn of 2020 fearing...

When the social networks and the chat services were flooded with videos containing military transporters and buses full of soldiers, claiming this is the Russian army that has either entered Belarus or "are about to enter" Belarus, the fact-checkers from Belarus have quickly debunked these claims as disinformation. As was stressed by Franak Viačorka, an analyst from Minsk, and a...