The sight of thousands of people snaking along streets in towns and cities across Belarus to sign petitions for opposition would-be candidates has apparently spooked authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled since 1994 and is seeking a sixth term in an election on August 9.
RFE/RL: Belarus’s ‘slipper revolution’ seeks to stamp out Lukashenko
Protesters wearing gas masks stand in a queue to collect signatures in support of alternative candidates for Belarus' presidential election in Minsk, on May 31, 2020, amid concerns over the spread of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus.
