The Belarusian revolution and the Kremlin

Eduardo Estrada

Belarus (or, more correctly, Belarus) is already another. The bastion of post-Soviet immobility, the country that seemed allergic to change, has finally awakened. Despite the brutality of the repression, an unprecedented number of people have taken to the streets across the country to say enough. The protests are also socially transversal and reach the factories and the countryside, beyond the urban elites. They are not the first manifestations of discontent, but they are the first of this magnitude and depth. In recent years, various signs suggested growing discomfort and indicated that, ...

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