Belarus Protest : Tikhanovskaya pledged to stand till the end.

Belarus mass protest against President Alexander Lukashenko.

Belarus opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanivskaya has vowed that she would stand till the end.

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Belarus is a European country. It was part of the Soviet Union. But got independence in 1991 when the fall of the USSR. In the eastern part of Russia and south is Ukraine and the north Europian Union covered as a landlocked country. Over 95 Lakh people demanding for stop last "Dictatorship" of Europe.

On 9th August 2020 Presidential election was held in Belarus and Alexander declare himself as president of Belarus with the disputed election. According to official exit polling released by the country's central election commission, Lukashenko was won with 80% of votes & declare them the winner of the election. Huge opposition movements are demanding new democratic leadership and economic reforms.

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Who is Alexander Lukashenko?

Lukashenko has served five terms as president of Belarus since 1994 and tried to project himself as a "man of the people". In his whole tenure when people want to elect another leader so he always crackdowns on several occasions to maintain his grasp on power in the former Soviet nation for the last 26 years. Lukashenko now holding onto power by force alone and not only on Minsk. Because of his economic policies, lots of unemployment has been on the rise for the past decade. Its currency got devaluation many times.

Who is Svetlana Tikhanoskaya?

Svetlana Tikhanivskaya 38-year-old lady decided to take on the presidential election against Lukashenko even her husband Sergei Tikhanivsky a popular YouTuber subscribed as a presidential candidate in May but he was arrested by authority and claimed that he was instigating protest against the president. After all his wife subscribed presidential election. As she started her campaign large crowd attracted in rellies over the last few months and she has emerged in recent weeks as an unprecedented threat to Lukashenko authority. 

For the part of the opposition leader, she was rejected and she arrested that she was the winner of the election and got only 10.12% votes. But she left neighboring country Lithuania a day after the 9th August election saying the feared for her family safety and said she will return when she feels safe.

On the night after election violent clashes led to 3000 arrested in Minsk and other cities police fired tear gas, rubber bullets, stun grenades not seen before in Belarus to disperse the crowd.

After all this Europian Union heads also announced sections against a large number of individuals involved in alleged voting fraud and violence against protestors.

For the time internet access in Belarus has been shut down and many foreign journalists denied accreditation to enter the country to cover the election.