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Scandal at Olympics: Belarusian National Olympic Committee tries to forcibly send track sprinter back to Minsk
Sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya was dropped from the team at the Olympics. Her coaches tried to forcibly send her back to Belarus.
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NGO sector in Belarus almost completely destroyed
The Goethe Institute in Minsk stops its work. Belarusian Helsinki Committee received a warning from the Ministry of Justice about its possible shutdown.
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Lukashenko’s regime earned 1 million dollars in fines for protests
Belarusians have paid about a million US dollars in fines for protests.
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Minsk residents detained for white sheets of paper on windows
Minsk residents received from 13 to 28 days of detention for white paper sheets on their windows.
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Tsikhanouskaya talks about threats she received before her deportation to Lithuania
In an interview with BuzzFeed, Tsikhanouskaya revealed the threats she had received before her forced departure from Belarus.
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Belsat and all its social media recognized as extremist
The authorities are cleaning up the information field in Belarus: the Belsat portal and its social media have been declared extremist.
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Political analyst Valeryia Kastsiuhova faces up to 12 years in prison
Belarusian political scientist Valeryia Kastsiuhova has been charged with conspiracy to seize the power. She faces 12 years in prison.
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Over 20 public associations to be shut down in Belarus
In the period from 27 July to 4 August, Belarusian courts will decide on the compulsory liquidation of public associations.
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Offender detention center on Akrestsina Street is Auschwitz of 21st century
Dzianis Urbanovich describes conditions in the Akrestsina offender detention center as genocide: any person who gets there is “simply destroyed”.
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Andrei Dynko: “It’s me, I’ve come back from the other world”
Andrei Dynko, the editor-in-chief of Nasha Historyia, spent 13 days at Akrestsina; he wrote a life-affirming column.