Adaptive and creative protests in Belarus
Around the midpoint of August this year, doctoral candidate Alena Minchenia arrived in Belarus to encounter a nation that had erupted into mass demonstrations. The internationally disputed August 9 presidential elections in Belarus were followed by three days of massive protests countered by extreme state repression in what Minchenia says has since become known as ‘the war’. Since then, the countr
https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/article/adaptive-and-creative-protests-belarus - 2025-10-15