These week’s protests in Belarus have clearly overcome their initial
electoral focus and morphed into an expanding dissident movement of
urban middle class and workers. In arecent (August 4) article for Open
Democracy platform on the presidential campaign
<https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/electoral-unrest-under-lukashenkas-tired-rule-in-belarus/?fbclid=IwAR3zBTIc4N9wXwOlaFu76e3RuXJkbu0Lbgegf1WLHY63cWwJXPHs7Qv3amc>in
Belarus, I tried to explain why the opposition candidates from the
ruling elite and the “creative class” attracted a record number of
supporters, which led to mass demonstrations unseen in this country for
decades. I argued that these were the culmination of a protest sentiment
simmering in Belarusian society since the economic crisis of 2009, that
found expression in 2017 in the form ofgrassroots populist protests
<https://www.chronos-verlag.ch/sites/default/files/ihv_978-3-0340-1602-5_savk.pdf>challenging
Lukashenka’s degrading populist rhetoric.
https://www.criticatac.ro/lefteast/partisans-or-workers-belarusian-protest/
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