OP-ED

Grigory Ioffe: Trying to see into Belarus’s near future

By Grigory Ioffe.

Published Sept. 29, 2020 at 5:02 am

Women talk with a law enforcement officer during an opposition rally to protest against the presidential inauguration in Minsk on Sept. 26, 2020.

Photo by AFP

Sunday, September 27, marked the 50^th day of Belarusian protests against the falsified results of last month’s presidential election. Again, many participants of the rallies were arrested, tear-gassed and beaten by riot police. At the same time, the so-called Cyber Partisans hacked the online broadcast streams of two state-run TV channels to insert video footage of Belarusian police brutalizing the protesters (Tut.by, September 26).