Belarus has reached a certain point in its development, which is marked with the dusk of the Lukashenko era. And the question is not even whether the nation’s “batska” [father] will once again be able to either seal the overwhelming support of the voters or falsify election results. Something has become too obvious: figuratively speaking, the fruit is overripe. That is, Alexander Lukashenko’s continued rule in Belarus for a few more years would be clearly too much politics-wise.
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Volodymyr Ohryzko: Will Belarus change after presidential election?
An opposition supporter holds a placard depicting Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko and reading "Go away!" during a protest in Minsk on July 14, 2020, after the country's central electoral commission refused to register the main rivals to Alexander Lukashenko as candidates for the country's presidential election in August.
